>>>>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:16:31 +0100 (BST), Alan Brown said: > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Someone's got to do the work. Looks like someone has been doing > >> preliminary work on it as of late, but I don't expect that it will be > > in > >> Bacula 2.2 (I could be wrong), so it will be awhile. > > > > Maybe this is a pain in the a** for a lot of people here. If noone is > > willing to tackle that problem, why don't we all donate some money and > > pay someone to do it? > > I would support such a move, if money is the issue. > > >> Because it is not a bug, it is the way things work. > > "... given standard backup algorithms ...." > > >> Many commercial > >> backup softwares have exactly the same problem. > > > > I would never use or even pay such a backup software. > > Some of those commercial backup packages run into tens of thousands of > dollars. There are only a couple I'm aware of which do it the "right way" > > Fortunately in bacula, 90% of the work is already done - there is a file > database in place. It is mainly a matter of hammering out the right method > and cutting code - something I'm afraid I'm no good at. > > > Once the GUI is done for the "lazy" people, they will find out that > > bacula is missing a reliable and professional reason. > > See above. There are very few enterprise-grade packages which can do > "snapshot" restores via incrementals and they cost a great deal of money.
Ironically, lots of open source unix backup systems do implement it! __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
