[Box Backup] Development feedback & discussion for Box Backup 1.0?

[Charles Lecklider]

On 17/01/2011 22:56, Achim J. Latz wrote:
> If you have a look at the VSS ticket
> <http://www.boxbackup.org/trac/ticket/13>, there is some documentation
> on how Bacula created a GPL interface that abstracts those differences
> away. The internal working has to be different of course, but their
> implementation (mostly reflected in the above ticket) seems pretty
> "pretty". Perhaps an inspiration?

I intend to start with Win7 support and work backwards if time and
motivation allow. There is already enough XP-specific code that I don't
see a need to worry about API wrappers etc.

> Is there a specific reason you prefer BSD, even if the cost is having to
> reimplement the VSS support classes? At the same time, this would of
> course limit the usefulness of the GPL-"branch" of Box Backup, if you
> cannot distribute it with the VSS component.

Not all my projects are open source. I don't want any hassle with other
contributors having to assign copyright or grant rights - putting it
under BSD just makes things simple.

> Also: since you seem to be very interested in Windows clients, how do
> you work around the current lack of VSS?

By not using BB for things like Exchange or SQL server. Normal data is
very rarely a problem.

-C