Bacula Integration as Backup Client?

[TGI Friday]

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?

[jmo]

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

[annibelle]

Same here. I was also requesting the same thing, but they denied for some bad reasons.

Regards,
Annibelle

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

[TGI Friday]

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.

[jmo]

[...]It's kind of hard to imagine what reasons that might have been.....[...]

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.

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

[TGI Friday]

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.