Re: [Bacula-users] Where do we go after Bacula 2.2.0?

2007-08-20 Thread Alan Brown
My observation: Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation) To my mind, these pretty much all use the same code inasmuch as one is wanting to generate a new full backup to tape (or restore to disk) based on

Re: [Bacula-users] Where do we go after Bacula 2.2.0?

2007-08-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 20 August 2007 11:42, Alan Brown wrote: My observation: Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation) To my mind, these pretty much all use the same code inasmuch as one is wanting to generate a new

Re: [Bacula-users] Where do we go after Bacula 2.2.0?

2007-08-20 Thread Rich
On 2007.08.20. 15:37, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 20 August 2007 11:42, Alan Brown wrote: My observation: Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation) ... Item 1 is a very complex problem that has serious

Re: [Bacula-users] Where do we go after Bacula 2.2.0?

2007-08-20 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: To my mind, these pretty much all use the same code inasmuch as one is wanting to generate a new full backup to tape (or restore to disk) based on what's in the database and in the volumes for any given backup date, while weeding files which had been

Re: [Bacula-users] Where do we go after Bacula 2.2.0?

2007-08-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 20 August 2007 17:00, Alan Brown wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: To my mind, these pretty much all use the same code inasmuch as one is wanting to generate a new full backup to tape (or restore to disk) based on what's in the database and in the volumes for any

Re: [Bacula-users] Where do we go after Bacula 2.2.0?

2007-08-20 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: However the synthetic backup is not dependent on having information about deleted files. The synthetic backup will simply take what is in the catalog an run with it. I was working on the basis of an accurate full backup. Without knowing which files

Re: [Bacula-users] Where do we go after Bacula 2.2.0?

2007-08-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 20 August 2007 19:26, Alan Brown wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: However the synthetic backup is not dependent on having information about deleted files. The synthetic backup will simply take what is in the catalog an run with it. I was working on the basis of

Re: [Bacula-users] Where do we go after Bacula 2.2.0?

2007-08-20 Thread Steen
On Monday 20 August 2007 18:27:05 Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 20 August 2007 17:00, Alan Brown wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: Item 1 is a very complex problem that has serious performance implications depending on how it is implemented particularly for the FD, and

Re: [Bacula-users] Where do we go after Bacula 2.2.0?

2007-08-20 Thread Brian Debelius
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[Bacula-users] Where do we go after Bacula 2.2.0?

2007-08-18 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Now that Bacula version 2.2.0 has been released, I thought I would give you a brief review of the direction that I see Bacula taking over the next year. 1. Of course, there will probably be a few maintenance releases that fix bugs and add minor new features. I believe that Eric