Hello, I think that Dan responded well to the support issues you raise below, which I encourage you to bring up on the bacula-users list if you have more questions.
I'll briefly answer your projects questions, and provide a more complete answer somewhat later in a Status Report that I will send out later this week. On Tuesday 25 September 2007 01:00, Michael Short wrote: > Hey guys, > > I know this may seem a bit early to ask, but when are Items 1 and 3 in the > projects file projected for completetion? > Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files > Item 3: Merge multiple backups Being a volunteer Open Source project, we don't fix any deadlines on any projects. That said, when a project is scheduled, we do fix target dates. Neither of those projects are currently scheduled. > > Where I work bacula is a huge influence on us and our clients. What can we > do to influence development of these features (time for development, etc)? You can influence development of those features by providing programmers or finding one that is willing to do the project. Once the new Bacula Company gets going (probably April 2008), you will be able to contract directly with the company for the implementation of specific features. For the next year my time working for the Bacula project will be reduced from 100% to 50% and the other 50% devoted to getting Bacula Company operational. For the next few releases, any programming time I have will be pretty much devoted to implementing Enterprise features, and it seems that project #1 is not high priority for enterprises compared to certain other projects such as Copy pools and item #3. See the recent archives for recent emails on this subject. > > Also, is there any way to specify that at least one copy of a file should > be kept at all times? How do I ensure the file retention doesn't wipe out > the last copy of a file (if it has been unchanged)? Normally, Bacula should not automatically prune the last copy of a particular Job. However, if you are relying on that, I recommend that you carefully test it. Regards, Kern > > We back up data through the net and full backups are usually out of the > question. This makes managing space a nightmare because in order to free up > space, a large amount of our bandwidth is wasted backing up files we > already had but were deleted because they were part of another volume with > lots of older files. > > It would be sooo much easier if it were possible to remove old (duplicate) > files from the catalog and merge the full and incremental backups into a > single differential (and remove deleted/renamed files), then I could remove > the old volumes (without consuming all of my client's bandwidth). > > Please forgive me for being impatient, try not to take this message to > seriously. > > Sincerely, > -Michael Short ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
