On Wednesday 03 February 2010 13:19:52 Alex Ehrlich wrote:
>> Bacula has been known as "not too easy to deploy and configure" for long
>> time and it is this fact that slows down Bacula's adoption around the
>> world. There are also great fragments in the documentation and howtos,
>> but much more are needed.
>>     
What have you done to make this different?
>
> >From what I have heard, Bacula is very easy to install compared to other 
> >open 
> source and other commercial backup programs.  It is a big program, and has a 
> lot of features, so it can be overwelming at the beginning.
>   
Must of newbies at Bacula are not familiar even with backup basic theory 
- like GFS and difference between incremental and differential backups. 
Thats why its even more difficult.
>> Just some examples of documentation points that would be worth improving:
>> * How is it reasonable to manage backup of laptops (that can be present
>> or missing in the LAN throughout a day)?
>>     
You can use job timeout ou retry options.
>> * What is a reasonable to-disk-only backup strategy? There is one
>> example in the documentation but it is still pretty much tape-oriented.
>>     
This is a impossible question. We dont know your real needs.
>> * How can I construct a fileset that contains the following files in
>> "DOS wildcard notation": "C:/Documents and Settings/*/Local
>> Settings/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/*", i.e. "for all
>> users, back up whatever is under Firefox Profiles", but nothing extra?
>> It is not so trivial
>>     
There are several well written examples on Bacula online documentation 
of wildcard usage.
>> * Installation of the database (postgres) user fails under root by
>> default, at least on rhel (there is no such database user defined by
>> default), one should understand postgresql a little at least to get over
>> the issue.
>>     
Thats not Bacula community problem.
>> let us consider an example of MS Windows 
>> clients -- what's missing from the "ease of use" point of view. Current
>> binary installers are .exe files and to get through in
>> somewhat-bigger-than-soho scenarios MSI installers are required.
>>     
Windows sux.

Regards,

Heitor Faria

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