In this issue:
Bacula Systems Announces Foudation Course training dates
Interview with Kern Sibbald on Bacula New Feature Vote Results
Partner Spotlight: Red Hat
Developer Interview - Victor Hugo Dos Santos
Bacula Systems achieves OpenSolaris Certification
Bacula Systems at FUDCon 2009
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June 2009 Edition
Dear Bacula Community,
With the announcement of our new Foundation Course dates, Bacula 3.0 and the impending availability of Bacula Enterprise Edition, there are a lot of things happening at Bacula Systems. I'm especially pleased to announce the strengthening of our partnership with Red Hat. Our new 'Advanced ISV Partner' status with Red Hat means that Bacula Systems products will now be tested and certified on Red Hat as soon as they become available.
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Jack Griffin, CEO of Bacula Systems
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The recent successful release of our community edition, Bacula 3.0, has again pushed the boundaries of high performance Open Source backup and restore technology even further. The huge number of downloads now make Bacula the most popular enterprise-grade Open Source backup solution. My thanks go to everyone who has contributed to this landmark release, and we continue to welcome new community members who would like to get involved.
Bacula Systems Announces Foundation Training Course Dates
Our first Foundation Course will be held 7-8-9 July 2009, at the Bacula Systems headquarters in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. This three day course is designed to help new or potential users of the Bacula Open Source enterprise backup software install and configure a Bacula environment quickly, and operate it effectively for reliable day-to-day backup operations, and restores. Beginning with a brief overview of fundamental concepts, participants learn how to download the source code, compile and install the software, and configure it to operate in a test environment. Registration is now open. To book your seat on this course, or to get more details on the agenda, click here. There's also a fun test to check out if this is the right course for you.
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Kern Sibbald
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Project Voting: Interview with Dr. Kern Sibbald
Kern, what exactly is the Bacula Project Voting all about?
Project voting enables the Bacula community to decide, democratically, what new features should be developed as a priority. Requests for new features are submitted by users, and the community then votes to arrive at a final order of priority. The developers can then see what features are the most important (and the least) to implement. We cannot guarantee that any particular feature will be implemented for the next version, but the voting results are an extremely important guideline for us. It's as simple as that!
What did you think about the results?
Well, as you can see from the list, it means that there are going to be yet more exciting developments coming up in Bacula. Actually, the process has already started. That's the great thing about Bacula - the user community is extremely vibrant, and as the community grows, so does the speed of Bacula's development. I love it!
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Do you intend to continue with the voting system?Absolutely. Bacula is all about giving the community what they need, and staying true to the values of honest Open Source. In addition to that, it provides Bacula with a pretty solid roadmap that is public to everyone. My thanks go out to all of those who voted. Is Bacula the only Open Source backup solution that has such a democratic feature voting policy?
As far as I know, yes.
The preliminary results of the vote are available here.
Bacula Systems Partner Spotlight:
Red Hat
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Bacula System and Red Hat have entered into a partnership that confirms Bacula Systems as an Advanced ISV Red Hat Partner. "Red Hat is committed to offering its customers the highest quality service available, and is proud to have Bacula Systems as an Advanced Partner", said Philipp Giesbrecht, Red Hat's ISV Program Manager for the EMEA region. Bacula Systems is also now featured in the Red Hat software catalogue. "Customers deploying on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Bacula can now have the availability of full support across the complete solution" said Rob Morrison, Marketing Director, Bacula Systems.
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Red Hat serves all industries, including government, financial, telecommunications, oil and gas, healthcare and educational markets |
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Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, has over 65 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. |
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www.redhat.com |
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Developer interview: Victor Hugo dos Santos
Victor Hugo dos Santos recently created a "Howto" to describe how run a backup of Oracle Databases with Bacula, without any downtime.
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Victor, What made you get involved with doing back-up of Oracle DB to Bacula?
Originally, Data Base Administrators performed Oracle backups with "tar" software and manual scripts. But this process gradually changed, and DBA's were requesting large disk space to perform new backup schema before sending the backup to type. After reading various posts in bacula-user and bacula-devel lists, I came to the conclusion that there was a definite possibility to run a better backup of Oracle with Bacula and LVM without the need of big disk space.
What were the most important things you learned?
I've worked with Linux since 2000, but my knowledge in Oracle was limited. But every day, one learns something new, and now I have learned much more in Linux, Oracle and Bacula. The beauty of the Open Source Community is that one both delivers and receives at the same time. For example: after sending the first 'how-to' draft to the bacula-users list, I have received various replies that have shown me new options to use in Bacula that I was not aware of.
What are the most exciting points about being able to backup to Oracle DB with Bacula?
I use Bacula to backup various servers, and the expected advantages of using Bacula in this new way have materialized in every aspect. For a System Administrator, it is much more complicated to have to manage a large mix of tools to backup all the server data. Our IT Management is now very grateful that a single, unique tool is capable of operating all the backup jobs in the company, reducing our costs and increasing reliability. Now, our goal is to have "all" backups under just one system: Bacula!
What is the main advice you would give anyone wanting to do the same?
Participate in the Open Source Community. That is a rich source of knowledge. There are always people that have the same problem as you, and other people that already have a solution to this problem. So; share to win!
Bacula Systems achieves OpenSolaris Certification:
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Bacula Systems has achieved certification on OpenSolaris. The OpenSolaris Certification of Bacula means that Bacula Systems customers can deploy Bacula on the Open Solaris platform with full confidence. Customers can be fully supported and certified when deployed on the OpenSolaris platforms, and offers customers an easy-to-deploy, seamless solution.
Bacula at FUDCon 2009
The Fedora Project uses Bacula as its backup and recovery system. We are proud of this vote of confidence from one of the most vibrant and demanding Open Source communities. The Fedora project's FUDCon event takes place in Berlin this year, June 26 - 28, and our engineers are on the agenda to present Bacula news during the general session, as well as making up a key part of the 'Barcamp' (hackfest). This is your opportunity to meet representatives from Bacula Systems, and people from the Bacula Community. Bacula Systems will sponsor a social event close to FUDCon Saturday 27 June – you are invited! Attendance at FUDCon is free, but registration is recommended. Full details here. Don't miss it!
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