> 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. > > If you would have asked questions about the problems you were experiencing we would have helped. > > Things that should be easy that Bacula makes overly complex: > > Labeling tapes > Assigning tapes to pools > Reassigning tapes to pools > Managing disk media > These are all very easy and menu driven.
> 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 > If you issue an unmount on the loaded tape you must issue a mount on the next tape. If you issue a release on the loaded tape you do not have to issue the mount command in the console if you have bacula configured correctly. > > 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 > This is easy. Use / instead of \ > > Basically I can't see that its useable for anything more than backing > up a single system, and even then better be careful. > I backup 50+ computers over gigabit network with the director, database and storage on different machines. Actually I have several bacula-sd machines because I have a few tape drives / libraries and I also use file storage on some of my large servers. > > 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 > You are guaranteed to get a lower level of user support than what you have here with that. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
