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