Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?
Mike: Thanks for the response! May I ask which catalog database you are using and how many clients you are backing-up? Kindest regards, Peter Buschman 18:00 10.10.06, you wrote: Server: Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 Stable(Sarge) On Tuesday 10 October 2006 05:51, Peter L. Buschman wrote: All: If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list and ask the question what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which OS distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers. Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a test environment I am setting-up, but I think it would also be interesting from a broader Bacula adoption perspective to see what the distribution is. I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and percentage distribution of the results. If you would like to add your installation to the count but do not want to post openly to the list, please feel free to email me privately. The summarized results will be anonymous as they will only consist of rolled-up statistics. Best regards, Peter Buschman - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Debian 'Etch': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - 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=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Operating System Poll - Thank You
Dear bacula-users: Many thanks to all of you who responded to my operating system poll, both publicly and privately, over the past several days. Due to the overwhelming response, I was only able to thank a few of you individually but the effort from everyone is nonetheless appreciated.* I will be compiling the results in the near future and will post them to the list the moment they are completed. Kindest regards, Peter Buschman - 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=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?
All: If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list and ask the question what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which OS distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers. Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a test environment I am setting-up, but I think it would also be interesting from a broader Bacula adoption perspective to see what the distribution is. I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and percentage distribution of the results. If you would like to add your installation to the count but do not want to post openly to the list, please feel free to email me privately. The summarized results will be anonymous as they will only consist of rolled-up statistics. Best regards, Peter Buschman - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] GUI interface
I'll volunteer to help with a Python API design and testing as well. Being able to perform command-and-control functions as well as simple backup and recovery of objects opens up lots and lots of possibilities. I'm not sure how complex the Bacula protocols are, but if we can manage to implement them in pure Python, then that potentially opens up Bacula development to Java (via Jython) and .NET (via IronPython) developers too. --PLB I agree that an API should be written to make GUI programming a lot less painful, in my case I realized that most of my problems building pygtk-console came from the fact that the software have to chat with the director like a human being, parsing director's answers, manage a command queue, etc. something cleaner will be a lot nicer. I'm looking forward to continue developing pygtk-console, if you don't mind I would like to remain this as part of the project. In the meantime I'll write some fixes to it that solve my particular problems. On the API side, I cannot help you with the official Bacula C++/Qt GUI as I don't know C++ neither Qt, but I can help on the API design testing things from Python, if you see is necessary. Best regards, -- Lucas Di Pentima - Santa Fe, Argentina - Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LUNIX S.R.L. - Soluciones en GNU/Linux - http://www.lunix.com.ar GnuPG Public Key: http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x6AA54FC9 Key fingerprint = BD3B 08C4 661A 8C3B 1855 740C 8F98 3FCF 6AA5 4FC9 - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] GUI interface
One of the things that is sorely missing in enterprise backup frameworks is an embedded dynamic language. C and C++ APIs tend to be rather inaccessible to users who find themselves limited to which API functions the programmer chose to use. Providing easy entrypoints where end users can control and extend a piece of software is one of the best ways to foster adoption and possibly even completely unexpected uses of the software. As a Python programmer myself, I would have to say that wxPython would have my vote. As Jo notes, it does have some very nice tools available and is also well documented (the author, Robin Dunn, also released a book on it this year which is nicely paced for newcomers). It is also easily packaged and compiled so distribution of programs written in it need not be dependent on a local installation with all dependencies. Possibly the biggest drawback to using Python for a Bacula GUI is that Bacula's Python API does not fully wrap the C++ API. Thus, building a GUI on it would require taking this intermediate step first whereas Kern's choice of C++ has no such dependency and is already well-known to him. That said, the foundations are there given that Python is already embedded in Bacula. Creating the scaffolding that allows Python to talk to the underlying C++ APIs is not rocket science and a lot can be done automatically with tools like SWIG (wxPython itself is created this way and is nothing more than a wrapper of wxWidgets). Kern is, of course, Bacula's BDFL, so his choice stands. Ultimately, the right GUI toolkit is the one the main developer is motivated enough to learn and he should have fun doing so. Those of us in the peanut gallery don't have much right to criticize the choice unless we are prepared to dive in and spend as much time on this new component as he is. ;-) --PLB At 17:28 30.9.06, Jo wrote: Did you consider wx-python. There is Boa-constructor as the IDE, but apparently you lean very much towards QT. I'm mostly sad because you move away from Python, since I don't know any C++. OTOH I don't have time to pitch in, so I don't really have too much to say about it. I do hope you will find somebody who feels like helping. A GUI for Bacula is long overdue. All the best, Jo - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help
I'll chime in with my endorsement of CentOS as well. I use it specifically for compatibility testing as a stand-in for RHEL as well as for commercial apps that only officially support RedHat and have never had a problem. The CentOS network also provides very timely security updates at no charge. --PLB Centos is _very_ stable. RHEL can be licensed quite cheaply if you don't buy the support package (about US$10/machine) The last time I looked (some time ago), it was over $200/machine. That is too much for me. For a company or someone serious about servers, that's OK and quite far given their security updates. - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
