> 
> 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.
> 

A 4GB memory stick wouldn't do the job for you? It should be heaps more
reliable than a DVD+RW (won't care about dirty marks, scratches, etc),
and faster, and given that 4GB is on the very low end of what's
available these days they should be pretty cheap too.

James


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