Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage to storage copy jobs using TLS

2014-05-09 19:36:52
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Storage to storage copy jobs using TLS
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: "Alexander E. Fischer" <aef AT raxys DOT net>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 19:32:52 -0400
On May 9, 2014, at 7:23 PM, Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org> wrote:

> On May 9, 2014, at 7:13 PM, Alexander E. Fischer <aef AT raxys DOT net> wrote:
> 
>> On Fr, 2014-05-09 at 18:42 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
>>> On May 1, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Alexander E. Fischer <aef AT raxys DOT net> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> when I first noticed that the Bareos fork has implemented storage to
>>>> storage copy jobs I wanted to use that because it would make a lot of
>>>> sense for my backup scenario. Only after spending quite a lot of time I
>>>> found out that my problems regarding Bareos' storage to storage copy
>>>> jobs seem to be related to having TLS enabled for all communications. I
>>>> think their implementation just doesn't work for TLS and is therefore
>>>> completely unusable to me.
>>>> 
>>>> As Bacula has an comparable feature now as well, and getting that
>>>> version to run on all of my systems will be quite some work as well, I
>>>> would like to know if Bacula 7's storage to storage copy jobs actually
>>>> work nicely with TLS, before trying to set it all up. Has anyone
>>>> first-hand knowledge about this? What do the developers say about this?
>>> 
>>> Have you tried it?  I’m still on 5 for at least a few weeks.  SD to SD is 
>>> something I want to do too.
> 
>> Sorry I didn't test it in Bacula because Bareos supplied a fix in their
>> experimental builds and that one works now with TLS.
>> 
>> I have no idea if it also works with Bacula but I can't really try
>> because Debian won't provide packages of the current Bacula version for
>> quite a long time and I really don't want to build it by myself on every
>> machine or package it by myself. Would be great if Bacula provided
>> packages for Debian like Bareos does, or did I just miss them?
> 
> Who did the Debian packages in previous versions.  This is really where the 
> community has to step forward.  The developers can’t be expected to do 
> everything.
> 
> e.g. the FreeBSD package is done by myself, not Bacula.
> 
> disclosure: yeah, I’m a Bacula developer and the FreeBSD version is still on 
> 5.x and I hope to change that in the next few weeks.


That said, many projects have a build tool, such a poudriere, which allows for 
easy creation of packages.  Doesn’t Debian?

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org

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