Adding Firebird backup using gbak

[marlonandrade]

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[tombruijn]

Hi @marlonandrade, thanks for the PR. Could you explain briefly what Firebird is and why it would be a good addition as a storage option? Because based on what I read I'm a bit confused about it being a SQL database system. Would that mean you also store files (so non database data) in that DB?

[marlonandrade]

Hi @tombruijn, sorry for not explaining it better on the PR.

It is an old SQL database system (http://www.firebirdsql.org/).
It's an open source database that was largely used here in Brazil in the early 2000 on Delphi and Visual Basic softwares because of its portability and was very easy to install as a dependency of the software. I would say that no sane person starts a project using it anymore, but sometimes we have to maintain some legacy

In our internal software stack we still have a system using it and we wanted to keep the entire stack backed up using the gem, so that was the reason for the PR.

Thank you.

[tombruijn]

I'm doubting to actually pull it in if it's a system no sane person would use today. I understand the personal need for it, but how many people will actually use it now or in the future. I'll think about it..

[tombruijn]

After some thought I decided not to merge this in. If it's an old system and not a lot of users I feel that it doesn't belong in the core. With v5's architecture it might be easier to add it as a external module without it being part of the main repository.

Thanks for the work @marlonandrade. I hope you understand my decision. I hope you can use a fork, by referencing it in the backup's project gemfile.

[marlonandrade]

Hi @tombruijn I do understand and also agree. I'm already using my fork.
I was going to suggest some pluggable way to add it, but as you said it is already planned for v5 =)

Thank you for your feedback and good work!