I have to agree with Joao (apologies for spelling
problems due to Latin alphabet). The choice of
something as trivial as a catalog database can be
a complete show-stopper for many applications. I
have seen this when deploying a solution that met
all customer requirements, but which was SQL
Server based, and was ultimately rejected for no
other reason than that it was not
Oracle. Likewise, other solutions, that happen
to support Oracle, automatically get a free pass
because they support the in-house database even
though they have passed none of the acceptance
tests required of other solutions.
Consider that no enterprise backup framework
officially supports multiple RDBMS vendors and
Bacula's support of multiple databases
(abstracted through dedicated interface code) becomes especially attractive.*
I will not go so far as to say that Bacula needs
support for additional databases but that, given
the availability of coders and testers, it can
easily be ported to most RDBMS's on the planet.
Support for more databases is ultimately a
positive thing but it does incur additional development and testing effort.
--PLB
At 00:58 21.8.2007, João Henrique Freitas wrote:
Yes, one database is very appreciable
by customer whose not have skills to
manage a mysql, pgsql or sqllite databases.
But my goal with this idea is to promote Bacula
in enterprise sites which has only one type of database.
I believe in the independence of the database too.
Thanks for replys.
On 8/20/07, Ryan Novosielski
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Ryan Novosielski wrote:
>> Easiest way to handle this sort of thing generally is a DB dump and
>> backup the dump with Bacula. I assume all DB's have a tool to do this.
>> There's something that can be done with FIFO's, but I don't quite
>> understand all that stuff.
>>
>> João Henrique Freitas wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am a Brazilian student (Computer Science). In my work we use
>> Bacula to
>>>> do backups of everything.
>>>>
>>>> Some customers need to suport bacula in others databases than mysql,
>>>> postgresl and sqllite.
>>>>
>>>> I have some ideas to implement a odbc driver for bacula or a driver to
>>>> an commercial database (DB2).
>>>>
>>>> Please, I need to know if this idea is viable.
>
> hmm. I thought he was talking about the database that bacula used, not
> backing up other databases.
>
> my gut reaction was ... I suppose you could write such an interface, but
> why? If someone insists on a commercial database, why would they not
> insist on a commercial backup solution? Or, alternatively, if someone
> was willing to accept an open source backup solution, then what's the
> big deal about doing a simple install of mysql? Seems like the audience
> for bacula using DB2 would be miniscule.
>
> just my 2 cents
I can understand this one. We use Oracle for our main databases. It
would be nice if the same person could just throw that database in with
the others he manages. He has no MySQL experience. Not sure how that was
chosen, but... it is what it is now, and having to install MySQL extra
was a bit of a hassle, but completely expected, so... <shrug>
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