On 04/01/10 11:34, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> On 03/31/2010 07:27 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> [...]
>> DVD support is another issue.  Direct DVD writer support was deprecated
>> in Bacula some time ago and is explicitly unmaintained and unsupported,
>> because it turns out to be so problematic.  
>> [...]
> 
> "Explicitly?"  Where would that be exactly?
> 
> I see in http://bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Current_State_Bacula.html
> 
> + Advanced Support for most Storage Devices
>     [...]
>     * Supports writing to DVD.
> 
> If you search the main doc for "DVD" you will find it mentioned in
> many places with nary a word about "unmaintained and unsupported",
> There is even a subsection of the SD config section that describes 
> how to configure a DVD storage device.

The situation may have changed.  The last I knew, direct DVD writing had
been deprecated.  I don't know for sure whether it was subsequently
fixed, or whether the documentation is out of date.  I'll check up on
this and verify which is the case.


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