-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Hello List, Hello Kern, >>> >>> i am addressing a well know issue regarding bacula and it´s restore >>> feature. >>> I have seen a list where this issue is listet as the most wanted > feature >>> it think. >>> >>> My questions: >>> - How long will it take until moved or deleted files will be > reconized ? >> Someone's got to do the work. Looks like someone has been doing >> preliminary work on it as of late, but I don't expect that it will be > in >> Bacula 2.2 (I could be wrong), so it will be awhile. > > Maybe this is a pain in the a** for a lot of people here. If noone is > willing to tackle that problem, why don´t we all donate some money and > pay someone to do it?
It very well might be. For me, it is not such a problem. The biggest concern for me, I think, is that if I restore a system with user quotas, I might end up with some people over quota if they tend to add and delete files a lot. In cases where files merely change a lot, this is not really an issue. >>> - Is there a workaround ? >> Don't do anything but full backups, and you will not have this > problem. >> To my knowledge, you have this problem with incrementals. It is > somewhat >> lessened by making heavy use differentials, and eliminated by doing >> exclusively fulls. >> >>> - Why are GUIs more important than fixing the greatest Bug ever? :) >> Because it is not a bug, it is the way things work. Many commercial >> backup softwares have exactly the same problem. > > I would never use or even pay such a backup software. > > I am planing it to use it in companies, not at home for my desktop. > > Imagine your Sitation: The whole server goes down. You have a 10 Days > old full backup and 9 incrementals. > > Now you bring the system back up but with inconsitent files and > contents?! > > Try to explain that to you boss or the company you work for?! Since you seem to be so sure about the subject, I'd like to see you tell me which backup software does and does not have this problem. My suspicion is that many of the commercial packages have the same problem (at least that's what I remember finding out last time I looked into this). I can't tell right now from looking at the web, as this really isn't mentioned anyplace. How would you find out whether your choice of software package has this limitation or not? > Once the GUI is done for the "lazy" people, they will find out that > bacula is missing a reliable and professional reason. > > Just my 2 cent. > > What scares me is that this issue must be more than one year old, and > nobody ever really complained or did something about it. Like I said, I suspect people are aware of it and can live with it. The easy solution is to always conduct full backups, not incrementals. It's all a question of where you want to spend your money. As far as I'm concerned, making sure Bacula can restore all of my files is more important than make sure it knows what I've deleted. > I do not have the time and knowledge to implement this, but i would be > willing to donate in order to get someone to do it properly. > > Regards, Mario > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGgB+xmb+gadEcsb4RAuSzAKCgYrrG9mYkgqdfzDuNJWYbji7lVQCcDDCR rJmlnXhV3+Cda7EFh/2vj54= =saaU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
