oh I agree fully mate, Large is good, especially when dealing with something as 
powerful as this.  I think it's brilliant, like a lot of people I have come 
from tar.gz/bz2 land.  The manual is great, please, don't get me wrong, very 
few OS apps have this level of end user documentation.

I must admit to being glad that a rethink on formatting is happening because I 
have struggled to pin down info, my questions being a case in point.

Generally in the OS community I have learnt things through example ie.  howtos. 
 I would like to see a collection of Bacula user guides pertaining to different 
implementations.  The power of Bacula is enormous and growing, as a first time 
user I have found the configuration more than a little daunting.

Hey I might even host them!  If anyone else thinks this would be a good idea 
let me know!!

At the same time I know I am heading in the right direction with Bacula.  I 
read a great quote in the FAQ:
  
"In fact, you do not tell Bacula what tapes to use. It is the inverse. Bacula 
tells you want tapes it wants. You put tapes at its disposition and it chooses."


Cheers mate


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Isaac D. Newton" <isaac AT isaac-newton.com DOT au>
Sent: Saturday, 10 May, 2008 3:52:15 AM (GMT+1000) Auto-Detected
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Daemon and Compression Query

> Thanks again John, i'm really new to Bacula and so for a first hit out this 
> is a fairly complex setup, I really appreciate your help.
Your welcome.

>Actually I think this is the first time i've used a mailing list.  I doubt 
>they're all like this but your prompt help has helped no end!
I consider this list pretty good when it comes to getting help.

As for me, I am a 4+ year bacula user who gives back to bacula by
trying to answer some of the emails while trying to perform the duties
of my day job...

> I have rtfm but my god it's large!!
>
Much better than being small and incomplete...
There is a reorganization effort going on to split the manual in
smaller better organized parts.

> kudos and good karma to you.
> if you need a place to host something (not to taxing) give me a yell.
>
I keep a note of this.

Thank You,
John

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