On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 09:52:57PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 22 May 2008 20:48:58 Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:16:27PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > On Thursday 22 May 2008 18:41:59 Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > Hello Bacula developers! > > > > > > > > I just joined the bacula-devel list so I'm sorry that I can't reply to > > > > the original thread.. I read the discussion from here: > > > > > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02404 > > > >.htm l > > > > > > > > My original mail to bacula-users: > > > > http://www.nabble.com/Replacing-Arcserve-with-Bacula%2C-disk-staging-sp > > > >ooli ng-configuration-tt17404323.html > > > > > > > > So yeah.. I'd like to test this feature too. > > > > > > > > Is there something special required? Just install the SVN version of > > > > Bacula and I'm ready to go.. ? > > > > > > Yes, that is correct. At the moment the trunk SVN is quite stable. > > > > OK, Nice. If I upgrade from 2.2.8 are there database (mysql) schema > > upgrades needed? Or should I start with a fresh 2.3 database/tables.. > > I believe that there is an upgrade, but I also believe that it is mandatory > only if you have enabled the new Statistics capability (there is a new > table). >
OK. > Eric might be able to comment on this. I've seen the code go in but did not > look at the details. I do see that the DB version number has not been > updated, so it will most likely work with an existing DB. All our tests > start from scratch, but in the last two weeks before release, we test > upgrading and running with older DBs and older daemons. > Yep. Maybe I'll just start with the new DB so at least that shouldn't give me problems. > Theoretically the new version will work with older clients, but that is > probably untested, and there *are* some enhancements so you may need to > upgrade clients. However, you must at a minimum upgrade both the DIR and SD. > I was thinking of using 2.2.8 on clients.. if that works. I'll find out :) > > > > > The only thing to remember is that this is development code and it can > > > occasionally get broken, so you must *very* carefully test. There are a > > > *lot* of new features that we have not documented yet. A partial list of > > > them is included at the top of the file "technotes-2.3", which is in the > > > main source directory. > > > > Yep. I'll try this tomorrow or next week. > > > > > If you want to see how it has been doing in the nightly regression tests, > > > go to the following link: > > > > > > http://regress.bacula.org:8081/Bacula/Dashboard/ > > > > > > Then click on the << symbol next to the word "Nightly ..." that will show > > > you the previous night's regression runs. Both the Branch-2.2 tests and > > > the trunk tests show up, so you need to look for the tests on version > > > 2.3.xx-date where currently xx is 21 and date is 21May08 (i.e. > > > 2.3.21-21May08). The 2.2. branch tests are currently listed as > > > 2.2.10-b4-21May08. > > > > > > By clicking on the << you can go back to previous nightly testing. > > > > Seems to be pretty OK.. :) You've done good job! > > > > About restores.. is it still totally experimental? Will Bacula get confused > > when it finds the "same" job from two different places? > > I don't know the answer, but according to Ulrich who has tried it, the > restore > works at least with what you wrote to disk. I don't guarantee there won't be > problems, and I haven't yet worked out how you could restore from your tapes > (assuming you backup to disk then Copy to tape). Before the official > release, we will work out something -- you *might* be able to specify a > Storage device even in the current code????? > OK. Usually you want to restore from disk when the backups are still on the disk (faster), but when they're purged from the disk, then obviously restore from tapes.. > We would appreciate feedback, but sorry cannot spend more than an absolute > minimum of time on giving help or getting you out of trouble. However, we > will take note of all your feedback. > > > Good luck, > Thanks :) I'll let you know how it goes.. -- Pasi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
