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<p>Hi Sven,</p>
<p>Thanks for status update.</p>
<p>The thing is: various cloud providers tend to point out Bacula
supports S3 storage "out of the box" and, then suddenly it becomes
clear it is only Enterprise edition providing the working driver.<br>
Community version contains "sort of cloud driver", but, not very
promising at this stage.<br>
This is sad news since I know at least one potential big client
who decided to stop the pilot due to complications with cloud
driver.<br>
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<p>Regardless, my offer to help in any way I can in regards to
packaging Bacula for Debian still stands.<b><br>
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<p>Best regards,<br>
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<p><b>--<br>
Mario Pranjic</b><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/14/20 3:21 AM, Sven Hartge wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 13.09.20 11:26, Mario Pranjic wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I am interested in contributing in packaging Bacula for Debian, along
with the cloud driver.
By checking buster-backports, I see working version of Bacula 9.6.5
(tested, working ok), but no cloud driver.
Can someone onboard me into the project? How can I be of assistance?
I have a fairly good understanding of Debian package manager, years of
experience with all sorts of UNIX/Linux versions ans flavors, but didn't
contribute to Debian packaging so far (hence the question for onboarding).
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The cloud driver was excluded because it uses a special forked libs3
from Bacula Systems, which has not yet been included in Debian, mostly
because the code base is old, insecure, more-or-less unmaintained and
duplicates the existing (but incompatible) libs3.
The latter means there would be a special dispensation needed from the
Release-Managers, the Security-Team and possibly the FTP-Masters.
In addition to that Kern hinted that Bacula Systems might rewrite the
Cloud Driver using the official SDK, making efforts to include the
current Cloud Driver wasted.
Grüße,
Sven.
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