Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-13 Thread Bob Hetzel
Regarding the bacula manual... It's not very Linux specific and is really one of the better manuals I've used for an open source project. Far better than many commercial manuals imho. It's long because bacula has a lot of features--many of which a new implementation won't use but may be desire

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-13 Thread Reynier Pérez Mira
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 11:39 -0400, Bob Hetzel wrote: First of all let me thanks to every people who takes a minutes or maybe more to answer my questions. I and some others guy starting a DataCenter and a automatic save tools is needed here. Because I used Bacula before I just suggest and every peo

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Keane
I think you may be thinking of a lab setup, but the original poster seems to have been talking about putting bacula into production. Understanding how to recompile is indeed very important. And actually recompiling makes a lot of sense in a lab environment. It really is not very difficult. Reco

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: > > 1) If you use the version that's not the latest, the bacula folks will most > likely just tell you to upgrade to the latest version, so you might as well > start there now and try to stay current. > One reason for this is the developers are u

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We've all got opinions. I tend to go the other way, and use packaged software. Compiling doesn't take THAT much more time, but it's certainly not as easy as working with packages (if you know what you're doing that is -- if you don't, it's probably 6 o

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Hetzel
1) If you use the version that's not the latest, the bacula folks will most likely just tell you to upgrade to the latest version, so you might as well start there now and try to stay current. 2) On open source software that's where development is still "active" I'd highly recommend learning t

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Keane
There is no 100% cut-and-dried answer here, but a couple thoughts: - Regardless of what you do, I would not use a version older than, say, 2.2. Preferably use 2.4. - You may want to stay with the version you have been testing. After all, your test results may not apply to other versions. - If

[Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Reynier Pérez Mira
Hi every: I've been testing Bacula for more than six months. Right now my boss ask to me for a suitable version for production. Wich version did yours recommend me? I use Ubuntu Server and I was thinking to use the version post in the repository for LTS (Ubuntu 8.04) release. This will be fine? Tha