[Bacula-devel] Glutton for punishment...

[Flynn, T. <ter...@ed...>]

Hi,

I am porting Bacula v1.28b to AIX 4.3.3 and W2K (cygwin v1.3.9). Various
levels of success. Everything compiles ok and starts up. 

One major issue that had me going was md5.c - AIX is big-endian and W2K is
little-endian. I could not get the director (on W2K) to authenticate with
the file or storage services (both on AIX), until I made the following
update to config.h "#define HIGHFIRST 1" on the AIX platform, which is used
in md5.c. Is it possible to have the proper incantations included in
"configure" to check for little/big-endian machines and update config.h
automagically?

I have the tape i/o working. Not many updates to change from sys/mtio.h and
sys/tape.h. Mainly in dev.c. But still testing it. I can label tapes, write
backups, and append backups to a tape. Bit scary trying a restore at this
time...

My target environment is not small with about 15 machines and 169 separate
backups (not including ad-hoc). This will be hard to configure, test, and
maintain. Are there any plans to replace the bacula-dir.conf with records in
a database somewhere (mySQL or BerkelyDB)? It would be easier to develop a
nice little GUI front end, if this was the case.

Anyone willing to lay money on my chances of making it all stable?

Regards,
Terry