Hello Rob, On Tue, 7 Jul 2026 at 18:00, Rob Gerber <[email protected]> wrote: > > I like your idea, Marcin.
Thank you very much for your feedback and ideas. > I also feel like we would benefit from a central location to store some > frequently discussed topics, so we can easily link people to the information > they need. For example, there is much confusion about acquiring a repo link > from the bacula project. If we could link to a page with information about > this, that would be great. I volunteer to help write such an article, if you > are interested in hosting such content. That's fantastic. Thank you for your offer of writing this article. This is kind of you. This article can help many users to start with Bacula. I have an idea for the technical side of this article. I will describe you the details in a private message after sending this message, because these details are out of the scope of this mail thread. > I have also thought some basic configuration guides might be helpful, as a > starting point to new bacula users. The bacula manual is very daunting. I > feel like there is not a lot of "quick start" information. This is true. I have similar impressions. I think your idea with "quick starts" is very good. > On the other hand, instructions like "paste this information into your config > file" glosses over important bacula information that is contained in the > manual. I think at minimum configuration examples could be useful. Right. Good idea. > An example of a configuration example I would have found useful is setting up > bacula with cloud copy jobs, and object locking. I do not think object > locking is mentioned anywhere in the bacula documentation. This is an area > where the information doesn't include only bacula knowledge, but also > knowledge from another area. Thanks for underlying this topic. I saw it lately on this mailing list where you described it. > One thing I have lamented about the mailing list structure is that it isn't > easily searched, and people cannot easily find the information they need like > can be done on stack exchange etc. Sure. > I don't know if you find interesting the idea of hosting a wiki or some other > source of bacula knowledge beyond news, but these are the thoughts on my mind. Of course. Thank you, Rob. I think this is a big chance for the Bacula community to get something good. I can't imagine not taking advantage of this. Best regards, Marcin Haba _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
