Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-27 Thread Martin Simmons
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:45:41 +0100 (BST), Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Eric Warnke wrote: 6) Does not track deletions between full backups. Show me more than 3 (quite expensive) commercial packages which do this. There are at least two open source ones that

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-27 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Martin Simmons wrote: 6) Does not track deletions between full backups. Show me more than 3 (quite expensive) commercial packages which do this. There are at least two open source ones that work for some unix filesystems (Jörg Schilling's star and Solaris's dump/restore

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-26 Thread Francisco Reyes
Alan Brown writes: a filesystem index at each backup (this wouldn't be difficult, but would be overkill in 90% of sites) I have no idea of a percentage, but I would think that the percentage of users that can benefit from point in time is more than 10%. Any ISP (specially anyone using

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-26 Thread Eric Warnke
We are still evaluating bacula as well at this point, but between all of the small issues I felt it was my responsibility to at least explore home grown alternatives. I am working up a proof-of-concept set of tools to do backups. It's just scaffolding right now, but it's similar to the way rsync

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-26 Thread Francisco Reyes
Eric Warnke writes: We are still evaluating bacula as well at this point, but between all of the small issues I felt it was my responsibility to at least explore home grown alternatives.  Any reason you could not work to help the Bacula project with whatever disadvantages you have found so

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-25 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Eric Warnke wrote: The Bad. 2) SQLite SQLite is only really there for testing purposes and the odcumentation makes it very clear that it's not recommended for production systems. 6) Does not track deletions between full backups. Show me more than 3 (quite

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Bill Moran
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:29:47 -0400 Eric Warnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] 2) SQLite has undocumented limitations that make it inappropriate for many site that might be interested in this product. First off, if there is any contention for the database ( ie, looking at the state of the

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Warnke
SQLite was chosen as a simple, no-daemon option before limitations were realized. Before moving to production we will move it to a MySQL database we will already run.Cheers,Eric Have you tried out MySQL or PostgreSQL?

RE: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Heigl Florian - Munich-MR - external
Hello Eric and list, thank You for taking the time for this write-up. I'm using bacula and very confident about it, but agree on all points mentioned, and still lack a 'good feeling' about my configuration, which is the reason I'm backing up about 20 clients in a completely ashaming schedule of

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 24 Apr 2006 at 12:29, Eric Warnke wrote: 3) Config files are needlessly over complex. It has taken weeks to fine tune the config files in order to achieve a stated goal for our in-house needs that is not overly complex ( 90 days of guaranteed backups ). Almost every time a complex change

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Francisco Reyes
Eric Warnke writes: I am a recent newcomer to Bacula and have bumped into a number of limitations. current backing up 700GiB of online storage What type of files? Lots of small files or medium large files? So far I have added only 2 servers to be backed up with Bacula. About 500GB with 6