Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula Oracle MML

2011-08-27 Thread Sebastian Herbszt
Paul Tabashov wrote: > We have looked at this some time ago and actually had received form Oracle > the specs for the APIs, but as Kern pointed > out, there are several issues with integrating Bacula with RMAN: > > 1. As Kern said below, RMAN wants to initiate the backups and drive them for > tha

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula Oracle MML

2011-08-27 Thread Sebastian Herbszt
Paul Tabashov wrote: > We have looked at this some time ago and actually had received form Oracle > the specs for the APIs, but as Kern pointed > out, there are several issues with integrating Bacula with RMAN: 1. As Kern said below, RMAN wants to initiate the backups and drive them for that ma

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula Oracle MML

2011-08-27 Thread Sebastian Herbszt
Hello Kern, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello Sebastian, > > There are several problems in interfacing Bacula to Oracle: > > 1. One is that the Oracle "APIs" are proprietary, which will probably > require some license exception to interface to them. i am not sure about the legal status of the API and

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula Oracle MML

2011-08-27 Thread Sebastian Herbszt
Hello Eric, Eric Bollengier wrote: > Hello Sebastian, > > On 25/08/2011 22:05, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: >> I am trying to estimate the effort required to create an Oracle MML which >> can interact with Bacula. >> Unfortunatelly i am unsure about its design: >> >> Backups are taken with RMAN and

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula Oracle MML

2011-08-26 Thread Paul Tabashov
923 http://www.pontis.biz -Original Message- From: Kern Sibbald [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 12:56 AM To: Sebastian Herbszt Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula Oracle MML Hello Sebastian, There are several problems in interfa

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula Oracle MML

2011-08-25 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Sebastian, There are several problems in interfacing Bacula to Oracle: 1. One is that the Oracle "APIs" are proprietary, which will probably require some license exception to interface to them. 2. Oracle apparently charges a good deal of money to be able to get access to these "APIs". We

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula Oracle MML

2011-08-25 Thread Eric Bollengier
Hello Sebastian, On 25/08/2011 22:05, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: > I am trying to estimate the effort required to create an Oracle MML which can > interact with Bacula. > Unfortunatelly i am unsure about its design: > > Backups are taken with RMAN and the MML has to connect to Bacula. According >

[Bacula-devel] Bacula Oracle MML

2011-08-25 Thread Sebastian Herbszt
I am trying to estimate the effort required to create an Oracle MML which can interact with Bacula. Unfortunatelly i am unsure about its design: Backups are taken with RMAN and the MML has to connect to Bacula. According to the "Projects" file [1] client initiated backups aren't supported, so th