Hello,

sob., 20 kwi 2019 o 12:33 Tilman Schmidt <til...@imap.cc> napisał(a):

> Hi Radosław,
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2019, at 11:40, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
>
> What "resources" are you referring to? My current phone has 64bit OS and
> 4GB of RAM (top models has 8G). Having a real bare metal server with
> hundreds GB of ram is not a big deal. Storage space is extremely cheap too.
> Unless you run your Bacula on wrist watch or 30Y hardware you do not need
> to worry about any RDBMS for Bacula catalog.
>
>
> That's the situation today. Of course nobody in his or her right mind
> would use SQLite for a new Bacula installation.
>
> But this thread was originally about an existing installation. Ten years
> ago (just as an example, when I did one Bacula installation I am still
> running) there were no phones with 4 GB of RAM. You were lucky if you had
> that much memory in your server. Back then, SQLite was even the default
> backend offered by Bacula during installation. So it was quite reasonable
> to use it in a small environment. (Let's say less than 10 servers.)
>

Yes! Back then SQLite was supported.


>
> How Great! We removed this legacy in the end! Let's celebrate! :)
>
> You see it as a loss, OK. I see it as a great step forward.
>
>
> It would be if there was a migration path for all those faithful Bacula
> users who've been using and promoting the product for many years and who
> have been misled into installing it with the SQLite backend initially. As
> it stands, they find themselves in a dead end now. Can't you understand
> that they are not in the mood to celebrate?
>

I fully understand it and you have a full right to be in bad mood. I show a
different point of view for the same situation.

Yes. It would be the best if a such migration path (FAQ, Whitepaper,
How-To, etc.) from SQLite to other RDBMS will be provided. I think nobody
realized that are some users who still running Bacula with it.

best regards
-- 
Radosław Korzeniewski
rados...@korzeniewski.net
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