On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:26:20PM -0400, John Drescher wrote: > > I was trying to set up bacula on my parents' laptop the other day so > > that they could do proper backups to DVD+RW disks. Only it isn't > > working. > > > All I can say is the dvd writing code is alpha quality or even worse > since the developer working on that quit the project many years ago. > On top of that the developers (including Kern) also have discussed > removing that feature entirely.
Right; I was afraid someone was going to say that. > I would suggest that you just make 4GB disk volumes and externally > burn these to dvd media then delete the 4GB disk volumes from your > server. Not an option -- I'm doing it this way since explaining dad how k3b works seemed to be too difficult... I wanted to have something that said "click here for backup", or some such. I guess I'll have to find something else, then. -- Wouter Verhelst NixSys BVBA Louizastraat 14, 2800 Mechelen T: +32 15 27 69 50 / F: +32 15 27 69 51 / M: +32 486 836 198 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
