On 3/23/12 1:20 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > This is in response to the email from Jesper (see below). As it is > not always obvious, I am not in the least upset in any way. This is > meant to be information about our future direction, and more > directly a response to Jesper's concerns and questions.
> This is in general, not just to Jesper: > You may not agree with me. That is OK. If you do, that is even > better. Please don't > get upset though, there are enough things in the world going wrong that > it is > not worth the effort to complain to someone who has and is giving you > lots of very > useful *free* software. > > Best regards, > Kern > > On 03/23/2012 07:10 AM, Jesper Krogh wrote: >> >> Hi Kern. >> >> Awesome. This is some of the key features Bacula has been lacking. >> Others are: #10 and #29 >> >> It is your call (or Bacula Systems), but I really would suggest that >> you'd try to push a mail to the Bacula-mailing list of the amount >> of direct funding needed to just develop these features directly >> in the open source version of Bacula. My feeling is that you're >> silently killing of the Open Source bacula by following this path >> as strongly as you do. >> >> I like and enjoy working with Bacula. Bacula has been a corner stone >> in our setup for more than 7 years, pushing over 1 petabyte of data out >> to tape, using different autochangers, LTO-generations and been adoptable >> and flexible along the way. 1) >> >> As with all other compontent in the IT-setup the amount of work time >> and money there has gone into Backup over the years is significant. >> >> The problem is, I dont think there is a single person on this planet >> running bacula in an non-Enterprise context. The amout of work, >> hardware and time needed to run >> a decent backup system with tapes and autochangers (which >> is the corner where Bacula is truly awesome), is highly >> overlapping with the enterprise segment, so the money is there. >> Not to stick my nose in where it isn't wanted, but I just wanted to say that I am at least one single person running bacula in a non-Enterprise context--I use it on my home Linux server, and back up that server, 2 windows XP clients and 3 windows 7-64 clients. I can assure you that my wife and my less-than-teenage children are not using their computers as part of a business enterprise. However, it was difficult to convince the wife that it made sense to purchase a used 16-slot LTO3 changer ($1000 on Ebay), which was an upgrade to the previous non-changer LTO2 drive we used (coincidentally, also around $1000 on Ebay). My active backup library has about 15TB of data, on approximately 50 tapes. I do think that for any site smaller than mine, the economical choice might be to avoid tape--but many people seem to be using bacula fine with disk-only solutions (and I too use disk-based backup for things I'm more likely to have to restore) I've had some technical conflict with how Kern runs things in Bacula--but it is his project and his prerogative to handle matters as he sees fit. Overall I'm thrilled with the community version, and though I have not contributed in a financial sense, I've tried to pay-it-forward by helping from time to time on the bacula-users mailing list. I don't believe that the community version is in jeopardy, mostly due to the extremely active user community. Thanks Kern, for everything you do! And also thanks to all Bacula contributors--both technical and financial, -se ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users