Hi, On 12/5/2006 12:04 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 11:04, Rudolf Cejka wrote: > >>Arno Lehmann wrote (2006/12/01): >> >>>On 11/30/2006 9:24 PM, Per Andreas Buer wrote: ...I would be very interested to know why you don't like Areika. Having > this information always helps ...
Generally, I found Arkeia to be unreliable. There were simply too many occasions where backups didn't run, too often without any clues in the log files. The license system especially caused all sorts of trouble, like it insisted on not having licenses for machines it had in its database, only these machines weren't there. Or changing the machine type without aparent reason, and thus requiring a more expensive license. The GUI looked interesting, but I couldn't work with it. The tools to manage Arkeia from the shell use a rather peculiar syntax, at least very different from any unix/gnu software I know. The catalog is held in disk directories as links, files, and directories. This is a performance problem for the relatively underpowered backup servers I run. Also, it's not easily separated between machines (which is a feature I really like in Bacula, because I have to lose two servers before I need a bare-metal Bacula server restore), and managing it when the provided tools don't work correctly is impossible. Some of the components tended to crash, which lead to all sorts of problems hidden behind a GUI, rather than presented by it. The GUI was really painful - setting up a basic configuration needed many kilometers of mouse abuse, and I never found a good overview of what I set up. This might be a matter of taste, but I do like text consoles for system management tasks. Support was not really helpful - very often it was advised to stop Arkeia, remove some things from the file system, and restart. Or use the command line tools to manipulate the catalog (usually deleting hosts or changing licenses). The licensing scheme is simply too expensive for me and my customers. After all, they need their money to pay me :-) and paying for Arkeia software does not deliver you a Backup solution that works out of the box, so they need support anyway. Much of the above is also reflected on the arkeia users mailinglist IMO, so I assume that it's not only my fault that I couldn't work with Arkeia. Arno -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
