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:


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