Chris Hoogendyk wrote, sometime around 20/08/07 21:24: > 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.
One reason might be that if you've shelled out megabucks on a commercial database, you've probably also bought some decent hardware to run it on. Setting up a second database server when you've gone to the trouble to configure one for decent performance is quite a bit of work (not to mention somewhat costly). I'd love to get working on SQL Server support for bacula - then we could drop our postgres server and free up quite a bit of capacity on one of our Xen hosts. We're soon to set up a clustered install of SQL Server and once that's in, and things quieten down, maybe I'll finally get chance to look at it. SQL Server isn't going away any time soon (at least a couple of critical apps here are written to work with SQL Server and SQL Server alone - even to the point of using encrypted stored procedures, no less!). ODBC would seem like the way to go, although it could just use the TDS libraries directly I suppose.. -- Russell Howe, IT Manager. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BMT Marine & Offshore Surveys Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
