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Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If you are a user of Bacula on Windows, I would be interested in your
> responses to the following:
>
> 1. I am considering to change the default installation location for Bacula on
> Windows to be the same as it was previously -- that is the \bacula directory
> on the main disk. The current installation places files in the "standard"
> Windows locations, but IMO, it is very inconvenient because they are
> extremely long names with spaces that are very hard to remember, and are
> sprayed all over the disk.
I definitely prefer the 'old' way of putting everything in c:\bacula and
have kept my FD installations that way when the new installer came out.
I don't care what M$ says, having the program in a directory that is not
OS language specific, doesn't contain spaces and is self contained
offers me certain advantages over their Program Files + Documents and
Settings + Registry mess, namely:
- - Language independant paths: I can use external scripts to update
Bacula. No need to push an installer and somehow coerce the Windows box
to run it so that it can resolve the pathnames 'locally': I can just
give an RPC command to shut down the FD, map the drive, place the new
files in the standard directory and have the FD service come up through
RPC again.)
- - No spaces in filenames: Obviously this avoids many issues with having
to quote pathnames in config files etc etc.
- - Everything in/under one directory: After running the uninstaller,
ensuring that everything is gone is easily done by wiping said
directory. Similarly, finding the configuration files for the program is
much easier that way than having to wade through Documents and
Settings\<variable_username>\(Local Settings\)Application Data.
Apart from "it's what M$ wants", I do not see any advantage to actually
using their convention (unless people use roaming profiles, but I doubt
Bacula is a candidate for that). At least the config files of a program
should always stay with it. That's my, very biased, 2 Eurocents. ;)
That said, as I'm only using the Win32 FD, the defaults in the installer
doesn't really bother me. I simply unpack the files from it using 7-Zip
and then build my own or manually install the FD.
I don't think I can help with any of the other points, maybe the
regression scripts if that is doable in a VM and doesn't require any
hardware?
Greetings,
Michel
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