On Friday 02 April 2010 22:25:42 Phil Stracchino wrote: > I request clarification. A while back, I understood backup to DVDs to > have been deprecated, and that the official recommended technique was to > back up to DVD-sized disk volumes and then burn them separately to DVD. > On the other hand, it's also been pointed out to me that we still > *document* backing up to DVD.
I would rather restate it that we still have not removed the documentation on backing up to DVD. > The gripping hand is, while the > referenced section[1] is there, it's very old, dating from v1.8.x. So, > there's some confusion here. Undoubtedly. > > So: *Is* backup directly to DVD officially supported? No. We just have not removed the old code nor the old documentation. > Or is the > recommended procedure still to write DVD-size Bacula disk volumes, then > burn them to DVD by other means? Yes. > > > [1] the section in question: > http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.ht >ml#SECTION001950000000000000000 Also see > http://bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Current_State_Bacula.html, which says > writing to DVD is supported. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
