So I do want to take a moment to comment that I definitely approve of the migration to PostgreSQL. The only particular disapprovement of the migration that I would comment on is that installing it in an environment where it's not used yet just bloats the software even more. It still perplexes me how Veeam's software takes up more space than Windows itself does, like how does backing up anything require more software than the entirety of Windows to do all its things, but unfortunately that's how it is, so I've accepted it, and I continue to nag people for creating Windows VMs with 40 GB of disk space these days, really when was the last time 40 GB was "best practice"?
Overall I think the move to PostgreSQL is an improvement, and I agree with @Gostev on eventually wanting to have a more "appliance like" feel to it. It should more "install and done" without all the maintenance of individual components like a VBR server here, proxies there, repositories in a few locations, and a database on that spare server in the main office. Definitely like the fully self-contained installation idea.
As a suggestion along that route, and perhaps this is the end goal:
In my opinion a fully configured ISO that can be used a VM's virtual disk would be a good solution here, have everything already installed and configured, more or less, so we just drop the ISO into whatever virtual environment we have, whether that's cloud service or on-premises, boot it up, web interface for management that will prompt for initial configuration on first boot. That's how Acronis does their self-hosted deployment, noting they push very strongly towards their cloud-hosted deployment, but still support and develop self-hosted options for most workloads.
Overall I think the move to PostgreSQL is an improvement, and I agree with @Gostev on eventually wanting to have a more "appliance like" feel to it. It should more "install and done" without all the maintenance of individual components like a VBR server here, proxies there, repositories in a few locations, and a database on that spare server in the main office. Definitely like the fully self-contained installation idea.
As a suggestion along that route, and perhaps this is the end goal:
In my opinion a fully configured ISO that can be used a VM's virtual disk would be a good solution here, have everything already installed and configured, more or less, so we just drop the ISO into whatever virtual environment we have, whether that's cloud service or on-premises, boot it up, web interface for management that will prompt for initial configuration on first boot. That's how Acronis does their self-hosted deployment, noting they push very strongly towards their cloud-hosted deployment, but still support and develop self-hosted options for most workloads.
Statistics: Posted by BackupBytesTim — Dec 16, 2024 3:50 pm