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 <[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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