Requirements to become a Supported Platform

As mentioned above, in order to become a fully supported platform, it must support POSIX Unix system calls. In addition, the following requirements must be met:

• The principal developer (currently Kern) must have non-root ssh access to a test machine running the platform.
• The ideal requirements and minimum requirements for this machine are given below.
• There must be a defined platform champion who is normally a system administrator for the machine that is available. This person need not be a developer/programmer but must be familiar with system administration of the platform.
• There must be at least one person designated who will run regression tests prior to each release. Releases occur approximately once every 6 months, but can be more frequent. It takes at most a day's effort to setup the regression scripts in the beginning, and after that, they can either be run daily or on demand before a release. Running the regression scripts involves only one or two command line commands and is fully automated.
• Ideally there are one or more persons who will package each Bacula release.
• Ideally there are one or more developers who can respond to and fix platform specific bugs.

Ideal requirements for a test machine:

• The principal developer will have non-root ssh access to the test machine at all times.
• The pricipal developer will have a root password.
• The test machine will provide approximately 200 MB of disk space for continual use.
• The test machine will have approximately 500 MB of free disk space for temporary use.
• The test machine will run the most common version of the OS.
• The test machine will have an autochanger of DDS-4 technology or later having two or more tapes.
• The test machine will have MySQL and/or PostgreSQL database access for account "bacula" available.
• The test machine will have sftp access.
• The test machine will provide an smtp server.

Minimum requirements for a test machine:

• The principal developer will have non-root ssh access to the test machine when requested approximately once a month.
• The pricipal developer not have root access.
• The test machine will provide approximately 80 MB of disk space for continual use.
• The test machine will have approximately 300 MB of free disk space for temporary use.
• The test machine will run the the OS.
• The test machine will have a tape drive of DDS-4 technology or later that can be scheduled for access.
• The test machine will not have MySQL and/or PostgreSQL database access.
• The test machine will have no sftp access.
• The test machine will provide no email access.

Bare bones test machine requirements:

• The test machine is available only to a designated test person (your own machine).
• The designated test person runs the regession tests on demand.
• The test machine has a tape drive available.