On 03/31/2010 07:27 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >[...] > DVD support is another issue. Direct DVD writer support was deprecated > in Bacula some time ago and is explicitly unmaintained and unsupported, > because it turns out to be so problematic. >[...]
"Explicitly?" Where would that be exactly? I see in http://bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Current_State_Bacula.html + Advanced Support for most Storage Devices [...] * Supports writing to DVD. If you search the main doc for "DVD" you will find it mentioned in many places with nary a word about "unmaintained and unsupported", There is even a subsection of the SD config section that describes how to configure a DVD storage device. (http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html#SECTION001950000000000000000) When I was first searching for a backup app with support for DVDs, I found hundreds of secondary sources recommending Bacula, none of which mentioned that DVD media were "unmaintained and unsupported"; on the contrary they all said explicitly DVD media *were* supported. I'm not complaining -- I already had a preexisting app for media tracking so doing Bacula backups to file, then scripting their migration to DVD outside of Bacula and using my media database to link the DVD ids to the Bacula jobids is working fine. But I do take exception to the claim that DVD non-support is explicit and documented. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users