On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:26:20PM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
> > I was trying to set up bacula on my parents' laptop the other day so
> > that they could do proper backups to DVD+RW disks. Only it isn't
> > working.
> >
> All I can say is the dvd writing code is alpha quality or even worse
> since the developer working on that quit the project many years ago.
> On top of that the developers (including Kern) also have discussed
> removing that feature entirely.

Right; I was afraid someone was going to say that.

> I would suggest that you just make 4GB disk volumes and externally
> burn these to dvd media then delete the 4GB disk volumes from your
> server.

Not an option -- I'm doing it this way since explaining dad how k3b
works seemed to be too difficult... I wanted to have something that said
"click here for backup", or some such.

I guess I'll have to find something else, then.

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