On Friday 10 November 2006 16:43, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:58, Mathew Brown wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I'd read several times that the FD encryption feature was not yet > >> stable but this was several months ago. Would you now consider it > >> stable enough for use in production environments? Thanks for your > >> help. > > > > It is ready for testing (BETA released), but not recommended for production > > use until it is officially released (unless you are an experienced Bacula > > user who knows how to cover his bases and can deal with bugs ...). > > One reason not to use encryption for other-than-testing purposes is the > chance that, prior to release, the encryption format may change. This, > in fact, happened just this week. This means that you're either in the > situation of losing your backed up data or badgering the developers to > include a workaround in the code (extra work for them). Either way, not > a place I'd like to be. Seems like the BETA releases are coming along > pretty well though, so it might not be all that long...
Well, I wouldn't like to stress these kinds of problems too much as I would prefer not to discourage people from beta testing. The change of the data format was a very unusual event and Landon very graciously offered to maintain backward compatibility. If it were not for beta testing, this problem would have been uncovered in production ... Concerning the schedule: I had intended to release the production version in mid-November, but given the encryption problem, and what looks like a bug in Migration of jobs that span volumes, the release will probably be delayed until mid-December to allow proper testing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
