Ryan Novosielski wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Not to be chomping at the bit here, but I guess questions that I have > are A) How hard is it likely to be to get this thing built for Windows? > I don't expect you to have an answer for that as I suppose Robert does > most of the Windows work, but I'd be curious to know. B) If anyone is > familiar with this, on Solaris, is there a set of files that one can add > to a system that is relatively lightweight to support something like > this? Perhaps you have other KDE apps and know how this works. In my > experience, most distros want the qt libs package, but then that package > wants about 30 others. > > Thanks for any insights from the peanut gallery. I'd love to start using > this, but would pass for the time being if it will require extensive > dependency building.
I'll just reply to the Solaris part. I typically grab a good deal of this sort of stuff from sunfreeware. I try not to get things I don't need, but when you have a chain of dependencies, you don't have much choice -- either you want that capability or you scrap the whole thing. I have a directory /usr/local/pkg and a directory /usr/local/src, and I keep everything I have installed in one or the other of those. Some things you need source, some things it's unnecessary overhead and trouble. For me, Solaris is for servers. My desktop is Mac OS X. I don't use any graphical interface on my servers. I typically have a dozen or more terminal windows open with ssh sessions. If I were going to use a gui for something like bacula, I would want it at my desktop, not on the server. So, while my backup servers and everything would be on Solaris, I would want a client/server arrangement where I could do the administration from a gui on my Mac. Don't know if that fits with the current plan, but it seems most logical to me -- architecturally more robust and not caught up in the exporting of graphical interface through something like X11. From my perspective, that's not what a server ought to be spending its time doing. I would want the bacula install to be modular enough that I wouldn't have to install the graphical stuff on my server. --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------- Erdös 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
