From: Phil S. <al...@me...> - 2011-01-05 15:44:13
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On 01/05/11 08:21, Masopust, Christian wrote: > > Hello Kern, > > also a very great New Year to you and all Bacula-developers (I know, the > Bacula-users will have a great year, at least with Bacula :-)) > > I've only a short question regarding the next versions plan to add support > for MySQL 5.5: > what is the problem with MySQL 5.5? I've updated MySQL on my Bacula-Director > during the holidays to version 5.5.8 and up to now I don't see any problem... Same here. The upgrade from 5.1.53 to 5.5.8 was totally transparent and does not appear to have impacted Bacula in the slightest. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 al...@ca... al...@me... ph...@co... Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. |
From: Eric B. <eri...@ba...> - 2011-01-05 15:50:30
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Hello, Le mercredi 05 janvier 2011 16:44:05, Phil Stracchino a écrit : > On 01/05/11 08:21, Masopust, Christian wrote: > > Hello Kern, > > > > also a very great New Year to you and all Bacula-developers (I know, the > > Bacula-users will have a great year, at least with Bacula :-)) > > > > I've only a short question regarding the next versions plan to add > > support for MySQL 5.5: > > what is the problem with MySQL 5.5? I've updated MySQL on my > > Bacula-Director during the holidays to version 5.5.8 and up to now I > > don't see any problem... > > Same here. The upgrade from 5.1.53 to 5.5.8 was totally transparent and > does not appear to have impacted Bacula in the slightest. The problem is that MySQL 5.5 introduced a new reserved keyword, MaxValue (or MinValue, I don't remember) that is used in the Counter table. So, when you are *creating* the Bacula Catalog with make_mysql_table script, you have an error. If you are upgrading from a previous MySQL version, you shoudn't have problems. Bye -- Need professional help and support for Bacula ? Visit http://www.baculasystems.com |
From: Phil S. <al...@me...> - 2011-01-05 16:09:50
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On 01/05/11 10:51, Eric Bollengier wrote: > The problem is that MySQL 5.5 introduced a new reserved keyword, MaxValue (or > MinValue, I don't remember) that is used in the Counter table. > > So, when you are *creating* the Bacula Catalog with make_mysql_table script, > you have an error. If you are upgrading from a previous MySQL version, you > shoudn't have problems. Ah, that makes perfect sense. So if you have an existing installation and you're not using Counters, you're good. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 al...@ca... al...@me... ph...@co... Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. |
From: Kern S. <ke...@si...> - 2011-01-24 16:05:39
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Hello, On 1 Jan 2011, I sent a Bacula Status report with a request for your feedback by filling out a survey. For those of you who have responded: many thanks. For those of you who have not responded, the survey will remain open until the end of the month, and it gives you a good opportunity to communicate directly with me about some important topics. To fill out the survey, just go to the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5CXJ7S3 The survey allow you to enter virtually any text you want to make your comments, and it is all completely anonymous. I thought you might like a bit of feedback on the results so far (more after the survey is complete). 1. I was surprised how many of you appreciate the need for commercial support by Bacula Systems. No one (so far) has responded that Bacula Systems is not at all important to the project. 2. I have purposely refrained from discussing Bacula Systems too much on this list, because this is a community list, and I would not like to bother you about the commercial aspects of Bacula. However, I did receive a few comments such as the following one: I realise that Bacula Systems is a necessary evil but at times I feel that 3rd party contibutors may be put off because lots of planing seems to be done by Bacula systems. In practice I don't think there is a problem but just lurking on the -devel list makes it sound like that. or others that said that they wanted to know what exactly is in the Enterprise edition compared to the Community version. At least one person believes that the Bacula Systems plans are secret. Answer: Yes, I can understand those concerns. Bacula Systems plans are not secret, it is just that I haven't announced them on this list. We openly discussed them in the Bacula Developer's conference and will do so in the next conference as well. Since most people seem to want to hear more about Bacula Systems, I will begin including something on it in the next status report (generally quarterly). 3. One person requested that we stop putting features in the Enterprise version that are not in the Community version. Answer: As of the current Enterprise release (4.0.4) there are NO features in the Enterprise release that are not in the Community release (this will change over time, see below...). Our initial concept was to have full open source and to make the source of the Enterprise available to everyone. Unfortunately, with that fully open source strategy the first two years of Bacula Systems generated losses. We have realized that we must differentiate the Enterprise version and the Community version. Most Open Source companies do this by becoming Open Core companies. That is they have a free Community version and a proprietary commercial version with more features. Our new strategy is to remain fully Open Source, but to differentiate, as other companies do, what is Enterprise and what is Community. Thus, a certain part of the new development that Bacula Systems undertakes will be Open Source for the Community version and another part will be Open Source for the Enterprise version. This strategy seems to be working. In many ways, we differentiate like Open Core companies, but remain full Open Source. To complete the answer, today, Bacula Systems is putting some new features into the Enterprise version (mostly plugins) that will not immediately be available in the Community. Those new plugins (Windows related) are currently in beta test, and most of such features (such as Oracle plugins, SAP plugins, NDMP, ...) are high end features needed by companies but not very useful to most community members. All bugs that we fix are fixed in both the Community and the Enterprise versions, and I expect that over time many of the Enterprise features will become available in the Community version. For now I'll stop there, but there are many other interesting subjects. I do encourage you to fill out the survey, because it is an excellent way to let us know what you are thinking. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5CXJ7S3 Best regards, Kern |
From: Kern S. <ke...@si...> - 2011-12-12 20:37:43
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Hello, I have four topics to discuss in this status report: 1. The Bacula Systems Enterprise Migration program. 2. Bacula version 5.2.2 3. Reducing/fixing bugs 4. Christmas The Bacula Systems Enterprise Migration program: This is a program to help community users migration to the Bacula Enterprise version that was announced a few weeks ago. The response has been surprisingly strong, so I can only surmise that a number of you have growing backup needs and need some professional help. If you didn't take a look at this program, please be aware that it ends on 31 December. So if you have support needs or problems, please go to: www.baculasystems.com and click on the Selective Migration Plan on the left side of the screen in the Latest news area, or go to: www.bacula.org and click on the Selective Migration Plan icon in the upper right corner of the window. Bacula version 5.2.2: As you probably know this is the latest release. There have been very few problems reported against it, though there is one seg fault regression that seems to be rather rare. If you are experiencing any seg faults in the FD, you might want to checkout Branch-5.2 in the git repo (see the website). The patch has been committed. Sometime after the end of the year we may put out a 5.2.3 release. Reducing/fixing bugs: We are beginning to work on reducing the number of bugs outstanding. Hopefully over the next month or two we will fix most of them -- before version 5.2.3 is released. Christmas: I would like to thank all of you for using Bacula and for your contributions to the project. As we are approaching Christmas time, I would like to wish you all a very happy holiday season and a prosperous and peaceful 2012. Best regards, Kern |
From: Kern S. <ke...@si...> - 2012-09-14 18:46:27
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Hello, Bad version 5.2.11 release: Yesterday, we released Bacula version 5.2.12, which fixes a serious segment fault in Bacula version 5.2.11. Thanks to Marco, who quickly found the problem and fixed it. Prior to releasing 5.2.11, it was carefully tested, so it points out a flaw in our regression tests, which I will fix before the next release. I am sorry for the inconvenience this caused a good number of you. If you have downloaded version 5.2.11, please replace it with version 5.2.12 Status: One user wrote sometime ago that he was upset that the Bacula project was stalled. I am not sure where he got that idea, perhaps the time between two releases was a bit long because we were doing more development than normally, but I can assure you that the project is not at all stalled. Some examples: From version To version Number of lines of "git diff" 5.2.10 5.2.12 41,265 latest "minor" release 5.2.0 5.2.12 154,400 from beginning of 5.2 releases 5.0.3 5.2.12 464,364 from last of previous major version So even though the count of lines of diff is not a scientific measure of the amount of work done or the number of new features, you can see that the figures above represent a significant development effort. This development effort comes from three groups: 1. Bacula Systems 2. On going Bacula project developers 3. Community contributions In one sense people in #2 are also community contributions, but my point is that they are people such as Marco, and others who have worked for the project and regularly provide help. I much appreciate these contributions. Overall, Bacula Systems, is probably the #1 contributor since about 3 years. My time: Due to my heavy workload in ensuring certain administrative aspects of Bacula Systems as well as working on major Bacula Systems programming projects, I am attempting to optimize my use of time. One way I plan to reduce my workload is to stop doing the updates necessary to maintain the Windows platform as well as the Windows builds. As a result, there are no Windows binaries for Bacula version 5.2.12 -- this isn't a very big problem since there were very few changes to the FD, if any, so everyone can continue using the 5.2.10 Windows binaries. However in the long run (9 months to a year) when significant changes are made to the Windows code or the libraries that they use, this will become a problem, so it would be nice to find an alternative. There are three alternatives that I can see: 1. You build them yourself, as you do with the Linux binaries (unless you use distro binaries, which can be quite old and out of date). 2. Some community user learns how to build them and makes them available. 3. Bacula Systems supplies them. Comments about the above: 1. Build your own is not too practical, because you need to be a C++ programmer and have a number of mingw tools built and loaded. The process is well documented, but not very easy to setup. 2. Having a C++ knowledgeable community member build them is a bit more practical, but it is often hard to find volunteers and as is just a fact of open source life, the volunteer's life, time, or priority changes and they don't often continue long term. 3. Having Bacula Systems build them would work nicely since it is a long term solution. The only consideration is that Bacula Systems will want some very nominal financial compensation for doing so. You might also want to think about another idea, which is: perhaps Bacula Systems would be willing to provide binaries for a number of different platforms such as RedHat/CentOS where Bacula versions tend to lag seriously behind the development code. I would appreciate your opinions on these, and if you wish to express them "publicly" please send them to the bacula-devel list (and bacula-users list). If you wish to express them privately, simply address an email just to me. Please don't hesitate to indicate what sort of price you might be willing to pay for one or both of these services. Best regards, Kern |
From: Carsten M. <Car...@pr...> - 2012-10-05 22:16:43
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Kern Sibbald wrote: > 3. Having Bacula Systems build them would work nicely since it is a long > term > solution. The only consideration is that Bacula Systems will want some > very nominal financial compensation for doing so. I would personaly not have any problem with something like, pay 50 bucks to be able to download windows builds for a period of let's say 1 year. Also I would be interested in full windows builds (director, sd, fd) as I really don't want to stick with ARCServe on Windows machines anymore (which are not less common in the SMB world). Regards Carsten -- P-i-U UG & Co. KG Geschäftsführer Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. (FH) Carsten Menke Tel.: 0521 / 44 81 88 4 - 3 Talbrückenstr. 42 33611 Bielefeld |