Hi, On 6/21/2007 11:50 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > Recently, I bought a Windows Vista laptop ($$$ -- hint), so that I could test > the Bacula FD on it.
Me too :-) > First a few comments on Vista: > > Good things (at least for users): > 1. It has nice looking graphics Have you noticed the memory consumption of the 3d window manager? > 2. It has a lot of features ... which is not necessarily an advantage, IMO. > 3. They sure are packing a lot of "3rd party" software into their kernel > (e.g. virus checkers, disk repartitioners, encrypted folders, > automatic file backup, ...). I wouldn't want to be > an independent Windows utility software vendor. Quite true, though I think that today this not yet a problem. The virus checker, for example, is more or less a joke. IMO, again. > 4. You right click on many menu items to get a lot more functionality. > 5. They have installed the software in a much more reasonable set of > directory names (shorter and no spaces). If I am not mistaken, most > the old XP directory names are there too (sort of -- see below). > > > Not so good things: > 1. It is pretty big pig -- it squats in 500MB of memory, uses about 60GB of > disk, and it took over an hour to boot up the first time, and quite a long > time the second time; after defragging the disk, it boots in a reasonable > time. > 2. Although the new directory structure has more reasonable directory names > (shorter and no spaces), they have provided "junctions" to the old names > for compatibility. Unfortunately few third party programs such > as Bacula know about junctions, so they get confused, and typically > this manifests itself as references to files/directories that do not seem > to exist ... Only migrating configuration files from existing applications is a pain... > 3. VSS (Volume shadow copy) is not compatible with the older > code used by Bacula. That's bad, though I knew it :-) > 4. System services can no longer interact with the desktop, which means that > the Bacula tray monitor does not work. This is the right behaviour from a security-conscious point of view. > 5. There are a number new levels of security, which means that after > installing Bacula, you cannot edit the conf files without explicitly > finding the right dialog and changing your permissions on the files. > 6. Due to junctions not being really downward compatible, the Bacula menu > links to the conf files complain that the file does not exist. By the > way, junctions have been around for a while, but were apparently never > used in a default install. However, on Vista, there are a lot of > junctions in the default install. > 7. The new hard disk is 100GB the pre-loaded software uses 36GB. > 8. Due to the need for swap space (2GB RAM) and snapshot space, the largest > size available to load Linux along side of Vista is 28GB -- i.e. as > mentioned above, the system needs 60 GB of disk, and this is a virgin > system (with the Bacula FD loaded). I set aside 32 GB for linux, but will install it later... > So where are we with Bacula: > 1. After 6 hours of upgrades to my WinXP system (62 SP1 updates, then SP 2, > then install .NET Framework, then install Windows SDK, perhaps I will have > the new VSS code loaded, > 2. *perhaps* as their documentation claims, it is now a simple recompile with > new header files (I doubt it very much). I'll keep my fingers crossed... > 3. Junctions are another story, and I have no idea how much work that is > going to be. Should work somewhat similar to soft links, I guess. > 4. Even if the new VSS works, it will only work on WinXP, Windows server 2003, > and Vista, which means that in VSS mode, it is unlikely that the Bacula FD > will support older systems (Win98, WinMe, WinNT, ...) as it currently does. Not a serious issue I think. > 5. Time estimate: since I'm not getting paid for this: none. Let's see if some experienced windows programmer needs practice with Vista :-) Arno > Best regards, > > Kern > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
