[Bacula-devel] Bacula Oracle MML

[Sebastian H. <he...@gm...>]

I am trying to estimate the effort required to create an Oracle MML which can interact with Bacula.
Unfortunatelly i am unsure about its design:

Backups are taken with RMAN and the MML has to connect to Bacula. According to the "Projects"
file [1] client initiated backups aren't supported, so the MML has to connect to the director. Once
connected it will have to run a job. The FD likely needs a plugin to interact with the MML (data and
control path).

How can the MML communicate its intentions to Bacula? It doesn't seem to fit into a "job" approach.

[1] http://www.bacula.org/git/cgit.cgi/bacula/tree/bacula/projects

Sebastian