Phil Stracchino wrote: > I've several times now tried to look up resource specifications in the > Bacula online documentation. (In this particular case, I'm trying to > look up some information for an answer to a user question.) I know > that, buried somewhere in the documentation, there are sections that > describe every resource and all of the possible directives each resource > can contain. However, try as I might, I can never find it, either from > the table of contents, from the index, or by a web search. You just > have to Know Where It Is. > > I suggest that the documentation needs a single complete Configuration > Reference appendix that goes through each of the possible configuration > files (bacula-dir.conf, bacula-fd.conf, bacula-sd.conf, bconsole.conf, > bat.conf) listing every resource that can exist in that file and every > directive that is legal - and every directive that is *required* - in > each resource in that file. It need not explain the directives in > detail, as long as each directive has a link to where it *is* explained > in detail. The purpose of this chapter would be to provide a complete > configuration reference in one place, something that is currently either > missing, or very difficult to find unless you already know where to find it.
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