>Athur Emerson wrote: > > > 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.
I agree with the idea that the book should be about backup theory. It's so easy to create a backup environment that suits you now but won't in 1 year. Maybe some Data Management theory might not hurt either. > > 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.) Has anyone read O'Reilly's book "Unix Backup and Recovery"? It pretty much goes over all this material. Here is the table of contents. http://www.storagemountain.com/toc.html It has a lot of what you mentioned. It was written a while ago when AMANDA was the rave of the open source backup utilities. However maybe gearing a book at a broader backup community since Bacula includes support for Windows as well as *Nix environments might be more appropriate. > > > Does this interest anyone? I'm interested in helping but I'm not able to take the lead as I don't have years of experience in this field. I have some time and lots of toys to test stuff on that the project could use. Perhaps testing or helping write some of the example questions. > 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..... I know when I started to think about backups I stumbled across Storage Mountain and it helped me immensely. I found out about AMANDA there and it launched me into the network-based backup arena. It certainly couldn't hurt Bacula any being the backbone of a good reference manual. Ray ------------------------------------------------------- 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
