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I'd REALLY appreciate if Bacula was integrated as Backup Client.
We are using Bacula as a reliable, company wide solution and surely will not drop it. By now DSS-Shares have to be mounted somewhere in order to back them up, which is very uncomfortable.
Are there any new plans on integrating a Bacula-fd in DSS?
My similar request (a few months ago) was denied because of IP protection reasons. So I doubt they're open to changes in that area.
Regards,
jmo
Same here. I was also requesting the same thing, but they denied for some bad reasons.
Regards,
Annibelle
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Originally Posted by jmo
jmo, annibelle thanks for replying.
Think this is really a PITA.
It's kind of hard to imagine what reasons that might have been.....
Anyway, feel free to sign this post if you feel bacula (or anothe OSS backup-tool like amanda) should be integrated in DSS.
open-e doesn't want anybody to have a closer look at what's inside their "Linux distro" and want to protect their configuration mechanisms by keeping the system closed.Quote:
Originally Posted by TGI Friday
With a bacula agent you can access any file on the system, voiding their attempts to keep it closed. Only a Bacula agent with directory access restrictions implied by local rulesets (on the DSS, therefore under open-e control) might be a valid client from their point of view - at least that's what I imply from their responses. Not that I know of such an agent: open-e would have to go throught the effort of creating a chroot jail including access to the mount points of the shares and the image/device files for iSCSI/FC resources.
Regards,
jmo
jmo,
thanks for sharing insights and clarification!
This might be a valid argument for a vendor point of view.
From a customer point of view this limitation makes DSS less atractive, though.