On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:30, Robert Nelson wrote:
> <shameless mtx plug>
>
> Since Bacula pretty much works with any autochanger that mtx supports you
> could use the database on the mtx website at mtx.opensource-sw.net.
>
> If there is enough interest I could set up something similar for Bacula. 
> We would just need to agree on the information we would like to gather. 
> The automatic upload is a bit trickier.
>
> </shameless mtx plug>

If it isn't already there, I will add your shameless mtx plug to the 
autochanger section of the manual.  :-)

>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bacula-users-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno Lehmann
> > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:13 AM
> > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrade autochanger configuration?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 3/1/2007 4:32 AM, Ivan Adzhubey wrote:
> > > Thanks a lot, Arno. Your reply saved me a day of scanning through the
> > > documentation! Things looked a bit confusing because apparently, the
> > > guy
> >
> > who
> >
> > > installed Bacula first tried version 1.38.x and then settled down on
> >
> > 1.36.1
> >
> > > for whatever reasons he had. That left a bit of a mess in config files.
> >
> > Which tells us a lot about the value of having a useful documentation
> > about your systems :-)
> >
> > > BTW, is there a place to submit user tested Bacula-compatible hardware
> >
> > setups?
> >
> > Just this mailing list... or the -devel or -docs one, I guess.
> >
> > > The one included with the documentation (well, both of them) look
> >
> > outdated
> >
> > > and unmaintained for years. It is rather short also, which IMHO is
> >
> > misleading
> >
> > > and can discourage potential Bacula users. It is my understanding that
> >
> > in
> >
> > > reality Bacula will happily work with almost any autochanger/tape drive
> > > hardware except probably most exotic models.
> >
> > Both your assumptions are correct... unfortunately, it seems to be hard
> > task collecting and keeping up-to-date a compatibility list. The problem
> > starts with the fact that many users don't report their configuration.
> >
> > For those of us that do, a page in the wiki might be a good starting
> > point. The luxury version would be a database accessible through a web
> > front end, and when starting Bacula the first time you get asked if you
> > want your systems data uploaded automatically to the database... now we
> > only need someone to implement this :-)
> >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ivan
> >
> > Arno
> >
> > --
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> > Arno Lehmann                  http://www.its-lehmann.de
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