Re: [Bacula-devel] A suggestion for the form that a 'plugin' API for the file daemon might take

2007-09-01 Thread James Harper
> Hello, > > Below, you will find a few notes on my ideas ... > > On Saturday 01 September 2007 13:55, James Harper wrote: > > Here's some thoughts on the way I'd like to see a plugin API implemented > > in the bacula file daemon, based on the work I've done on the Exchange > > Agent for Bacula.

Re: [Bacula-devel] A suggestion for the form that a 'plugin' API for the file daemon might take

2007-09-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Below, you will find a few notes on my ideas ... On Saturday 01 September 2007 13:55, James Harper wrote: > Here's some thoughts on the way I'd like to see a plugin API implemented > in the bacula file daemon, based on the work I've done on the Exchange > Agent for Bacula. > > Agent loadin

[Bacula-devel] On Project item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.

2007-09-01 Thread Bastian Friedrich
Hi, during the past, we have used afbackup as for backups in the company I work for. This software is a "little" aged nowadays, and we have been looking for alternatives; obviously, there's only one: Bacula. Thx a lot for your work and effort that you have been putting into this project. Unfo

Re: [Bacula-devel] SVN considered slightly unstable

2007-09-01 Thread Eric Bollengier
> If you are interested in helping, one of the files that needs to be > replaced is src/lib/fnmatch.c. Along with it are fnmatch.h, enh_fnmatch.c, > and enh_fnmatch.h. enh_fnmatch.c is simply a derivative of fnmatch.c that > has some enhancements that Robert added. We have made a few minor change

[Bacula-devel] A suggestion for the form that a 'plugin' API for the file daemon might take

2007-09-01 Thread James Harper
Here's some thoughts on the way I'd like to see a plugin API implemented in the bacula file daemon, based on the work I've done on the Exchange Agent for Bacula. Agent loading a 'bacula library', or bacula loading an 'agent library'? As long as the agent and bacula both support the same version o

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Alpha release of Exchange Agent

2007-09-01 Thread James Harper
> > No Bacula code was used (eg cut & pasted), and it's written in C#, but > > obviously I consulted the Bacula code a bit in writing it, and used > > wireshark extensively in analysing the traffic. > > I'm very impressed, are you doing *just* exchange backup or do you have > implemented other fil

[Bacula-devel] Possible Bacula restore restriction

2007-09-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, In starting to eliminate the current makepath code used the make a full path for restore, I rewrote save-cwd.c, which saves and restores the current working directory. Two things occurred to me: 1. This code is terribly inefficient because it saves and restores the current working dire

[Bacula-devel] Bacula version 2.2.1 released to Source Forge

2007-09-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I have just released the source files and the Windows binaries for Bacula version 2.2.1 to Bacula release area of Source Forge. This version is what I consider a minor bug release fix to version 2.2.0. Unless you are having a problem with bsmtp or bat, it is probably not necessary to u

Re: [Bacula-devel] SVN considered slightly unstable

2007-09-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 01 September 2007 11:20, Eric Bollengier wrote: > Hello, > > > Now that Bacula 2.2.1 is release (currently uploading), I've begun work > > on a project to liberate Bacula from what I consider "onerous" > > restrictions of the GPL. The FSF considers the OpenSSL license onerous, > > so fo

Re: [Bacula-devel] PostgreSQL quoting

2007-09-01 Thread Marc Cousin
I think you're trying to solve a fake problem here : PQescapeStringConn does the job as required, there is no problem except a warning. The reason for this is the following : You're asking postgresql to : - Use non-standard conforming strings (aka old postgresql way of doing things) - Do a conver

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Alpha release of Exchange Agent

2007-09-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 01 September 2007 02:58, James Harper wrote: > > Yes, thank you for bringing it to our attention, we *are* very > > interested. > > > This is clearly a nice functionality, and something that a lot of > > users > > > would want. > > > > However, I have several comments: > > > > 1. If the

Re: [Bacula-devel] SVN considered slightly unstable

2007-09-01 Thread Eric Bollengier
Hello, > Now that Bacula 2.2.1 is release (currently uploading), I've begun work on > a project to liberate Bacula from what I consider "onerous" restrictions of > the GPL. The FSF considers the OpenSSL license onerous, so forbids mixing > GPL and OpenSSL code, which IMO is a pity since it inhibit

[Bacula-devel] SVN considered slightly unstable

2007-09-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Now that Bacula 2.2.1 is release (currently uploading), I've begun work on a project to liberate Bacula from what I consider "onerous" restrictions of the GPL. The FSF considers the OpenSSL license onerous, so forbids mixing GPL and OpenSSL code, which IMO is a pity since it inhibits the

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Alpha release of Exchange Agent

2007-09-01 Thread Eric Bollengier
Hi, > > Yes, thank you for bringing it to our attention, we *are* very > > interested. > > This is clearly a nice functionality, and something that a lot of > > users would want. > > However, I have several comments: > > > > 1. If the program uses any part of Bacula, then James should (probably >