On mercredi, 13 septembre 2017 15.34:32 h CEST John Maag wrote: > > Bareos, as Bacula, can be setup the way you want, (sometimes you will have > > to think differently), but it can do almost everything. > This may be true but why does it have to be such a fight? Bacula was > designed to write to a tape changer because years ago that is the way to > did backup but as all things technology moves on. Right now the direction > of backup and in general the direction of all IT is to move to cloud. Fo > rme personally, if I can afford the storage I am also interested in cloud > because it gives me instant off site storage. > > Yes as any complex and highly configurable software, it take time to get > > it. > Here is where I think we part some I think. I have read that Bacula/Bareos > is difficult to configure for people with a lack of experience or > background and therefore the "blame" is placed on the person. If software > is hard to configure ti is because of a software problem.
Come on, that's not a yet another notes taking apps for smartphone ;-) > Look at it this way. Should I have to configure each and every part on my > car to get them to work in unison to get me to and fro? No, of course not. > The same with Bareos. I believe the storage daemon should be configure to > work optimally for disk storage since the default is to store files in > /var/lib/bareos/storage. If the default were /dev/nst0 then I would hold a > different opinion > > There's partner, and consultants (Bareos GmbH being one) around that can > > offer you support, help for setup and configuration, and/or trainings. > > The manual is almost one thousand page (A4) long. > This might be a direction I want to go. I am still weighing if I want to go > forward with Bareos. > > And by default the configuration proposed (on community, or subscription > > binary) contain all needed to make file disk backup, with GFS rotation. > > Which can be a good start to learn how it works. > > Every line in the conf file is also commented, with back reference to the > > manual. > > I am not sure I am tracking here. Are you speaking of the suggestions made > in this group or are you speaking of what paid support can do? Where did you grab your bareos binaries. The one offered on bareos.org are good starting point to experiment with, and (I know well rpm based one) they are setup to automagically offer you a way to backup to disk just after the install. That's why I quite surprized about you have to do all the work from scratch ? Bareos try to make a lot of effort to lower the barrier of configuration. So I'm interested by the fact you can't find those information on your installation and thus asking myself about from where did you get it? -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch Bareos Partner, openSUSE Member, fsfe fellowship GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux 4.12.11-1-default x86_64 GNU/Linux, nvidia: 384.69 Qt: 5.9.1, KDE Frameworks: 5.37.0, Plasma: 5.10.5, kmail2 5.6.0 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
