Hello, By no means was I going to upset or blame anybody. I just wanted to point out some weaknesses and shortcomings that currently exist and maybe to warm up some discussion -- what would benefit Bacula and its [even] wider adoption ;-). I see that the discussion has kind of started, although -- what a pity -- at the level of "Thats not Bacula community problem" and "Windows sux" (these quotes are not from Kern) :-(.
>> Just some examples of documentation points that would be worth improving: >> ... > Those are good points and would make good contributions. Our company is currently working on some. But while I have set up 3 production sites with Bacula backup so far I still don't know *good* answers for some of those questions -- and, consequently, cannot contribute (some other have been documented by now and are on the way to be added to howtos). Maybe I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed? Possibly, but who is the intended audience then? > This is an Open Source project that counts on contributions from the community. > ... > All I can say is: what do you expect from a community project I consider the project as having achieved very good results for an open source one (and for commercial one, too, actually). It is a really good backup system (after all, why would I implement it in production otherwise?). But most things in our life could be even better than they are. > You apparently have not been reading what I have written about Bacula Systems. I have. However, I believed that even providing "support and consultancy" would benefit from the list of potential issues that might negatively affect deployments -- *for example*, in larger AD environments; but this was just my opinion about mostly-windows-based environments. There are other people around that could list "most critical points" for some other tasks/environments; backing up Exchange is a great example of resent task/environment-focused development. > "undocumented" /S option, which if it exists must be some NSIS installer supported option Yes it's a NSIS option (some say that it is case sensitive) and I tried it and it worked for upgrade (not overwriting the existing bacula-fd.conf, that was very nice of it). Regards, Alex Ehrlich On 03.02.2010 15:38, Kern Sibbald wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
