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By: Jan-Piet Mens » Managing Bacula deployment onto Windows

Jan-Piet Mens » Managing Bacula deployment onto Windows — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:43:46 +0000

[...] a related note, about a month ago, I suggested to Stefan Rubner that it would be great to have a Bacula daemon running on the ReadyNAS NV+-family. [...]

By: Stefan Rubner

Stefan Rubner — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:17:03 +0000

Of course, I’ve actually already done this before. But then I prefer to use what’s given to us by Netgear. Just to be prepared for the off-chance that Netgear somewhen updates the old ReadyNAS series with newer libraries that break things I linked against older stuff. I tend to do that only when I absolutely have to – like for example with the Neon libs which were needed by Subversion.

By: Jan-Piet Mens

Jan-Piet Mens — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:11:50 +0000

You could always use SQLite amalgamation -- might save some investigation work.

By: Stefan Rubner

Stefan Rubner — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:52:51 +0000

Actually, that was my intention – at least for the older, Sparc based systems. MySQL would be too much of a burden for those CPUs I fear. On the other hand, I’ll have to see whether the SQLite version shipping with the older ReadyNAS systems meets Bacula’s requirements. But this project won’t be a “weekend job” anyway, so there’s enought time to do some exploration.

By: Jan-Piet Mens

Jan-Piet Mens — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:49:35 +0000

Of course. :-)

You’re probably aware that Bacula’s catalog is in an RDBMS. I’d say go for the SQLite3 version of the catalog — others are probably overkill, as they’d need MySQL/PostgreSQL installed, making it all more wobbly.

By: Stefan Rubner

Stefan Rubner — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:44:06 +0000

Yes, it does. So that means you’re volunteering for beta tester in case I decide to undertake that project?

By: Jan-Piet Mens

Jan-Piet Mens — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:53:08 +0000

Good question: ReadyNAS NV+.
uname: Linux nv 2.6.17.8ReadyNAS #1 Fri Mar 20 04:41:57 PDT 2009 padre unknown

Does that answer your question?

By: Stefan Rubner

Stefan Rubner — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:06:52 +0000

For the Pro series or for the older Sparc based systems, if I may ask? ;)

By: Jan-Piet Mens

Jan-Piet Mens — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:33:55 +0000

Sounds good. One addon I'd really like to see is the Bacula backup daemon (storage daemon and director). Just in case you get bored... :-)