I've installed bacula from portage ( bacula-1.36.3-r2.ebuild) and found virtually no documentation with it other than one thin README and some release notes. Its not as if the documentaion is not available. There is quite a large manual for it.
But worse is that the gentoo install has removed things so that even the available manual doesn't work for a gentoo user. For example: In the online manual: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Contents.html In the section on `Running a job' a gentoo user will not get the right results because the bacula developers have expected there to be some of the install of bacula files available for testing. Bacula goes looking for them in /var/tmp/**bacula* and of course they are long gone. So a gentoo user will end up with nothing backed up and wondering what they did wrong. Especially if they don't notice the give away address, and it isn't that obvious because `bconsole' output is pretty primitive and it will not be on the screen long. It also means the restore part is a non starter too since nothing got backed up. Apparently someone maybe me needs to go thru the bacula ebuilds and make them a little more like what bacula devel people expect. Or fix it so it works for us. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
