Hi All,
whilst still waiting for some responses to my earlier query & having
sympathy for the guy who lost it and emptied his bowels onto a mailing list -
to be recorded for posterity (to his ovious subsequent regret!), these things
happen to us all sometimes.
I think it would be nice if the list had a moderator - but then who has the
time to spare?.
Anyway, speaking of things to complain about, I have to say that the main
problem I have with bacula is certainly not specific to bacula but has
everything to do with the fact that I am expecting something for nothing.
Development work aside - and I'm sure Kern would love more help - (e.g. things
like webacula haven't been improved for a while) - the design & implementation
of bacula generally I find spot on.
I really don't have much patience with people who demand a gui - my
installation for instance requires remote access to the server and clients
across a WAN just to be able to do it all from a telnet/ssh session is great.
The basic problem I have however is related to the fact that I am trying to get
something for nothing(!) right down to the hardware & this is where the
hypocrisy hits me in the face.
Doing a restore from a stack of DLT tapes & a catalogue hosted on a puny little
machine means that just doing a bscan takes all day (the amount of sql traffic
loads the host to the point that the tape even starts to shoe-shine!) I have to
disable any backups that may be scheduled before I get back in the morning else
my laboriously bscanned data will all be pruned again!!
Reloading the DLT autoloader blah blah (update slots scan) mtx is so slow!
But the point is NONE of these problems have much to do with Bacula they are
there because we are using cheap hardware in line with the misconception that
Open Source sotware is just a managers way of saving money and that philosophy
also includes the hardware.
I apologise unreservedly to people like Kern who produce some very fine
software but then get complaints from people (much like me) who cripple it on
the cheapest possible hardware!
I think all backup systems (including the million dollar variety) must be
starting to creak as the size of backup media gets bigger & bigger!) - I thinks
you really have to make sure you host bacula on decent hardware.
Hope you stick with bacula tho' Shon.
Best Ragards
Andrew R Paterson
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