On 3/23/12 1:20 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is in response to the email from Jesper (see below). As it is
> not always obvious, I am not in the least upset in any way. This is
> meant to be information about our future direction, and more
> directly a response to Jesper's concerns and questions.
> This is in general, not just to Jesper:
> You may not agree with me. That is OK. If you do, that is even
> better. Please don't
> get upset though, there are enough things in the world going wrong that
> it is
> not worth the effort to complain to someone who has and is giving you
> lots of very
> useful *free* software.
>
> Best regards,
> Kern
>
> On 03/23/2012 07:10 AM, Jesper Krogh wrote:
>>
>> Hi Kern.
>>
>> Awesome. This is some of the key features Bacula has been lacking.
>> Others are: #10 and #29
>>
>> It is your call (or Bacula Systems), but I really would suggest that
>> you'd try to push a mail to the Bacula-mailing list of the amount
>> of direct funding needed to just develop these features directly
>> in the open source version of Bacula. My feeling is that you're
>> silently killing of the Open Source bacula by following this path
>> as strongly as you do.
>>
>> I like and enjoy working with Bacula. Bacula has been a corner stone
>> in our setup for more than 7 years, pushing over 1 petabyte of data out
>> to tape, using different autochangers, LTO-generations and been adoptable
>> and flexible along the way. 1)
>>
>> As with all other compontent in the IT-setup the amount of work time
>> and money there has gone into Backup over the years is significant.
>>
>> The problem is, I dont think there is a single person on this planet
>> running bacula in an non-Enterprise context. The amout of work,
>> hardware and time needed to run
>> a decent backup system with tapes and autochangers (which
>> is the corner where Bacula is truly awesome), is highly
>> overlapping with the enterprise segment, so the money is there.
>>
Not to stick my nose in where it isn't wanted, but I just wanted to say
that I am at least one single person running bacula in a non-Enterprise
context--I use it on my home Linux server, and back up that server, 2
windows XP clients and 3 windows 7-64 clients. I can assure you that my
wife and my less-than-teenage children are not using their computers as
part of a business enterprise. However, it was difficult to convince
the wife that it made sense to purchase a used 16-slot LTO3 changer
($1000 on Ebay), which was an upgrade to the previous non-changer LTO2
drive we used (coincidentally, also around $1000 on Ebay). My active
backup library has about 15TB of data, on approximately 50 tapes. I do
think that for any site smaller than mine, the economical choice might
be to avoid tape--but many people seem to be using bacula fine with
disk-only solutions (and I too use disk-based backup for things I'm more
likely to have to restore)
I've had some technical conflict with how Kern runs things in
Bacula--but it is his project and his prerogative to handle matters as
he sees fit. Overall I'm thrilled with the community version, and
though I have not contributed in a financial sense, I've tried to
pay-it-forward by helping from time to time on the bacula-users mailing
list. I don't believe that the community version is in jeopardy, mostly
due to the extremely active user community.
Thanks Kern, for everything you do! And also thanks to all Bacula
contributors--both technical and financial,
-se
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