Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nevertheless, I would like to find someone to undertake this > project, preferrably with the kinds of skills mentioned by John. > For my part, I can work on finding a publisher, contribute a good > amount of the work and provide authorization to use any part of the > current manual. In turn, I would expect that the person or persons > who work on this would share any royalties with the Bacula project; > details to be determined ... > > Comments?
>From reading their proposal submission guidelines, it would appear that a book on Bacula would be something that O'Reilly would entertain. http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/intro.html I didn't read the above in detail, but did notice that they wanted something more than a re-hash of existing manuals. As a testament to the existing docs, my own personal opinion is that they might not bite on this book idea just because the existing manuals are so thorough and complete. I would think that they would be looking for real-life experience, with tips and gotchas. One area where the current manuals are lacking is in backup planning strategy. I don't know if O'Reilly covers this topic in another book, but that might be the key selling feature. Maybe even throw in some AMANDA, ARCserve, BackupExec and other software as examples? (I'm going to check their catalog for books on backup strategies later today, because I know that we could do things better and I'm sure that others could, too.) > Does this interest anyone? I work for a .EDU, but unfortunately not on the "publish or perish" side where they give sabbaticals and/or release time to write. My personal time is over-committed several times over serving as everything from officer and director to newsletter editor and webmaster of various non-profit motorsports organizations, and I'm not even going to try and fool myself into thinking that I have the time to tackle a whole book by myself. However, I could squeeze out a little free time during the work day to help get an outline developed, proof drafts, and maybe even contribute a chapter or two as a co-author if someone else wants to take the lead. I'm not an expert in Bacula by a long shot, but I can write and pretty much explain just about anything if I have enough time to play with it. John is right, though. It *is* time for a book on this subject, and I think that it would be a plus for the Bacula project if it were to be written..... -Arthur ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
