Ok. This is a rant and you can remove it from the list if you want to later. I just have to vent.
Bacula is incredibly complex to setup. Its taken 4 months and its still not working correctly. Things that should be easy that Bacula makes overly complex: Labeling tapes Assigning tapes to pools Reassigning tapes to pools Managing disk media Things Bacula can't seem to get right: Detecting a tape is in the drive and using it Even though the correctly labeled tape is in the drive, and has the right Volume label, and is marked "Append", and is from the correct Pool.... Bacula is still waiting for a mount request. Every external program recognizes that the tape is in the drive and mounted. Not Bacula Catalog entries. I've not had a single backup job where the right entries made it into the Catalog Windows hosts. Good luck figuring out the esoteric path syntax because its different in different chapters of the manual and also different depending on which part of the config you are editing Basically I can't see that its useable for anything more than backing up a single system, and even then better be careful. I'm going with Arkeia Network Backup. Might cost money, but at least it will work as advertised which is more than can be said for Crapula ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
