On 21/03/12 10:27, Kern Sibbald wrote: > We have a project planned for Bacula Enterprise where a Job is blocked > because it is despooling will be able to continue spooling providing there > is sufficient space. But this is an Enterprise feature, and unless someone > from the community implements it, it will only be in the Enterprise version. > In fact, we have a series of plans for adding high end Enterprise features > to the Storage daemon. Most of them should be completed by the end of > the year (hopefully before).
Hi Kern. Awesome. This is some of the key features Bacula has been lacking. Others are: #10 and #29 It is your call (or Bacula Systems), but I really would suggest that you'd try to push a mail to the Bacula-mailing list of the amount of direct funding needed to just develop these features directly in the open source version of Bacula. My feeling is that you're silently killing of the Open Source bacula by following this path as strongly as you do. I like and enjoy working with Bacula. Bacula has been a corner stone in our setup for more than 7 years, pushing over 1 petabyte of data out to tape, using different autochangers, LTO-generations and been adoptable and flexible along the way. 1) As with all other compontent in the IT-setup the amount of work time and money there has gone into Backup over the years is significant. The problem is, I dont think there is a single person on this planet running bacula in an non-Enterprise context. The amout of work, hardware and time needed to run a decent backup system with tapes and autochangers (which is the corner where Bacula is truly awesome), is highly overlapping with the enterprise segment, so the money is there. Now you ask yourself: "What the hell is this dude's problem?" The problem is, had I evaluated Bacula for out setup today, compared to 7 years ago. I dont think Bacula had won!. The one true strength Bacula has compared to commercial alternatives is the viral community on this list, that creates a true trust in the software that a lot of smaller commercial alternatives can't compete with. The smaller and more restricted the "Open" version becomes, the more this trust is sacrificed along the way and in the end it is "only" the pricetag that differes to the commercial alternatives. And, sorry, even though Bacula is cheaper it is going to loose this one big-time. In a Backup solution in enterprise context, the price of the software itself is only one component of the one-to-one comparison and the commercial alteratives are going to beat the shit out of Bacula on a lot of others, and the Enterprise version is "looking more and more" like "Just another commercial alternative". So, please, keep an eye on it, dont silently kill of the Open Source version. A proposed middleground is: * Try to seek funding for the features, instead of restricting them. * Push harder on what you are truly good at, support and services. 1) http://opensourcedays.org/2012/sites/default/files/Bacula%20-%20Experience%20from%20a%20medium%20scale%20real-world%20setup.pdf Thank you for your attention. -- Jesper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
