The online documentation indicates that enhancement requests should be posted to this group. I'd like to see a small number of enhancements. Many of these have been mentioned before, so please just consider this comment a "Me Too!" to add weight to those who decide what is next.
- Clean/automatic support for check-pointed file systems (UFS2, ZFS, XFS, BtrFS, etc.) along the same lines as is done in Windows environments. This would make the FD a bit more OS-specific but it would be able to use the VSS (volume shadow copy) logic already developed. - Data staged to disk on the way to tape -- allowing backups to spool faster than tapes and when tape drives are full. - Tape verification option -- verify that the bits read back from the tape are the same as those originally written. Spooling to disk makes this easier. Also, if a tape fails verification, it should be easy to restart the write/verify cycle with new media. - Explicit capturing of boot and partitioning information for easier bare metal restores. (Bare metal restores should be easy and fast for all OSes, but that is easier said than done.) - Movement of per-client information to database from config files for easier management and reporting. This would reduce the hassle of adding new entries as new clients are brought online. And a couple of really low priority but nice to have ideas: - Optional system shutdown after backup -- ideal for desktop machines which would otherwise be idle for hours. - API for database backups -- backing up MySQL's files while live is bad. Mysqldump output is big. We need a 'better way.' - An officially supported bootable CD/DVD recovery disk which contains everything required to recover any x86/ x86_64 machine from bare metal in a semi-automatic fashion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users