Like I said its a rant. Probably a poor choice to post, but I've really been having some inexplicable problems lately and kirk'd out something bad this morning. Setting up Bacula to test certain things went relatively smoothly. Its been setting it up for production that has presented its biggest challenges. The documentation is immense and the learning curve is certainly challenging. If it weren't for the support of all the kind folks here, I wouldn't have come as far as I have. For instance, the full abilities of the commands aren't well documented. It required searching the bacula-users posts to discover that I could do "label slots=1-12 pool=scratch barcodes".
I did do something foolish the other day when I edited the jobs and ran reload in the console while a job was despooling. The conf wasn't correct (still trying to get the Windows Fileset syntax correct). Well of course the director puked and this is I suppose expected. What I didn't expect is that Bacula wouldn't be able to tell me what happened to the job, or that the data that had been spooled to disk would all be gone. This is when I started running into difficulty attempting to purge the tape and add it back to the scratch pool. In addition, I had a Full backup run on Sunday. I received email that the job was complete and was successful. Querying Bacula for any information regarding the job returned "no reuslts". Looking directly at the tables showed the Filename table did contain the filenames but the Job and File tables were empty. I don't believe this should have been the case, and there was nothing in mysql logs to indicate an error and none in Bacula logs. I am not unwilling to believe that there still could have been an issue with mysql. These are real concerns for me and trying to implement reliable backups. I do apologize to anyone I might have insulted, particularly the hard working Bacula developers. Poor choice of mine to post comments like that. -Shon On Nov 21, 2007 9:20 AM, Foo Bar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have mostly problems with documentation and the learning curve, which > > is > > > especially going to be a problem for those that will use it once I get > > it > > > all set up (I can't get BAT to compile for example, hopefully the > > Debian > > > stable package will be updated soon). > > > > > BAT is a very recent addition to bacula (written mostly by a single > > developer in his free time) so it has not gone through the kind of > > testing that the other parts of the system have that have been around > > for years. > > I understand and don't expect miracles, just saying that Bacula currently > lacks in the ease of use department for those that can't learn it inside > out. For me that means I need a GUI for some colleagues and wouldn't mind > using it myself instead of the console. > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good > http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
