From: Dan Langille Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:24:33 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add the first draft of the 2.2.0 press release. X-Git-Tag: Release-2.2.1~44 X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c0cb3e77de5682408f84f0bfd78f120a43c80385;p=bacula%2Fdocs Add the first draft of the 2.2.0 press release. --- diff --git a/docs/home-page/about/press/presskit220.html.en b/docs/home-page/about/press/presskit220.html.en new file mode 100644 index 00000000..95d9b813 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/home-page/about/press/presskit220.html.en @@ -0,0 +1,154 @@ + + +Bacula 2.2.0 Press Kit + + + +

Bacula 2.2.0 Press Kit

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+ +Text of Original Release
+Additional Features
+Where to Download
+Documentation
+License
+Contacts
+Corporate Support
+Links
+Translations
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Original Press Release

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+11 August, 2007, Lausanne, Switzerland: The Bacula Development Group today announces the release of version 2.2.0 +of the Bacula Network Backup Solution. This release adds features, maturity, +and performance requested by users, delivering quality and usability comparable +to enterprise backup solutions. Version 2.2.0 is expected to drive even more +migrations toward Bacula. The previous release was 2.0.3 on March 7, 2007. + +

"This release introduces a new GUI interface, which reflects the increasing maturity of the product" said Bacula core +team member and project co-founder Kern Sibbald. "This is the best tested release ever made, and I would +like to thank all the regression testers. They have thoroughly tested it on +FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OSX, and Solaris. I have personally run the regression +tests many times on CentOS 5 (RedHat derivative), OpenSUSE 10.2, and Mepis +(Debian/Ubuntu derivative)". + +

+New features and tools to make network backups easier include: + +

Bat - new GUI now part of the project +
Optimized database performance to speed attribute insertion (approximately 10x + faster than previous versions) +
A new red/black algorithm used for building a restore tree in memory + (appoximately 500x faster) +
Added regex WERE support to allow easier relocation of restored files +
posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces swapping due + to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent implemented. +
Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most + conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers. +
Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system. +
Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled. +
Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists. +
Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir' +
Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged, + during pruning, it is immediately discovered. +
License is now GPL v2 without modifications +

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About Bacula: Bacula is a set of computer programs for managing +backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network. These +programs, each performing a specific set of tasks, work together to provide +a robust, easily managed, and complete backup solution for all environments. +Bacula is the collective work of many developers, building upon six years of +development. Bacula is an open source product and use is available without +fees for both commercial and non-commercial applications. + +

+Bacula's quality is demonstrated by inclusion in backup tutorials and books. +It has gained widespread use in a very short period of time. +

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Where to download

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Official Repository +
Packages are available for most operating systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MacOSX, Win32, +Irix, AIX, HP-UX, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, etc) +

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Documentation

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License

+ +Bacula is licensed under the GPL, which means the source code is freely available. +Bacula is available without fees for both commercial and non-commercial applications. + +

Full license details +

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Corporate Support

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+Bacula enjoys the support of numerous companies, who sponsor developers, provide hosting resources, +and give us financial support. + +

+There is also a large community of companies +offering Bacula Support, from individual consultants to multinational companies. + +

+Donations welcome +

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Contacts

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+Bacula home page + +

+General Inquiries:
+Dan Langille
+Bacula Project
++1 561 339 5866
+press@bacula.org +

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Links

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Graphical User Interfaces

Bat - Bacula Administration Tool. It is a GUI form of the bconsole command-line utility, but with many additional features. Although we are still working on adding new features to bat, at this point, it has more features than both bwx-console and the bgnome-console, and over time many additional features will be added, including the functionality of the tray-monitor as well as the reporting capabilities of bweb. +
bimagemgr - Bimagemgr is a web based interface written in Perl that monitors disk Volumes intended to be written to CDROM. +
wx-console - wx-console is a graphical console interface written in wxWidgets and available on all client platforms. +
gnome-console - The gnome-console is a graphical console interface available on systems that support Gnome 2.x. +
tray-monitor - The tray-monitor is a daemon monitoring program that resides in the system tray. +
bweb - Bweb is a Perl based web program that provides a tool to do basic operations and get statistics. +
brestore - Brestore is a graphical restoration interface available on systems that support Perl/GTK/Glade. +
bacula-web - Bacula-web is a PHP based web program that provides a summarized output of jobs that have already run. +

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+Full list of GUI Programs. +

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Official Translations of This Document

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German +

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French +

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