Hello, The feedback and response to my request for help in officially "supporting" FreeBSD, Solaris, and Win32 has been 99% positive. We have now found regression testers for FreeBSD and Solaris, and have an offer of equipment for Solaris, which will help a lot, though there are still details ($) of transport to work out, which is normal. I appreciate this kind of positive "lets get the job done" attitude. We still need to find developers that want to resolve bugs for those systems, but since both FreeBSD and Solaris are normally bug free, this shouldn't be too hard, and I can fill in in the mean time.
Win32 support is still an open question. I have now posted an updated chapter in the Developer's Guide on the web site that explains how to setup regression testing. Doing so does not really require any developer skills and some of you who are running production systems, might want to run the regression scripts yourself before each update if you build Bacula in house. The Regression chapter is far from complete, but it is a good start, and I will be happy to accept feedback on it. === Version 2.1.8 (current development) is now quite stable, and within the next week, I will be releasing a beta version for testing by early adopters. This code has a good number of *very* important new peformance features, and so I am most likely going to release it quite soon, despite the fact that it doesn't have a lot of the "little" features that I would like to see added. The major features are: - First cut of bat (Bacula Administration Tool) - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading). - Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times). - The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files. - Socket level heartbeat (untested). - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance. - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system. - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers. - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled. - New Recycle Pool feature. - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
