Diego Roccia wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:38 +0100, Michel Meyers wrote: > >>> - Does somebody know something about Bacula support for Dell Tape >>> Libraries? Will I be able to use all the features of my hardware? I >>> didn't find it in Bacula supported libraries page. >> That's because Bacula doesn't directly need to support your hardware, >> Linux has to. If all functionality of your hardware is accessible from >> within Linux, (or whatever OS you use) chances are Bacula will work just >> as well. Bacula just uses standard tape commands and some scripting (for >> mtx) to do whatever it needs to do. > > Doh! You're right. It was so obvious :P. But the page "List of bacula > supported tape drives" confused me. So, why does that page exist?
If you got it wrong, others have too. Let's see what we can do about this. People seem to skip straight to the list, without reading. Fair enough too. I propose this new paragaraph at the top of the page: ### Yes, Bacula supports your tape drive. Bacula does not directly access hardware. If the tape drive is accessible from your operating system, then it should just work with Bacula. If you can access your tape drive from the command line, then so can Bacula. ### Then, below the table, this paragraph: ### <h1>Don't see your drive?</h1> <p> If you do not see your tape drive listed above, go back and read the first few paragraphs of this page. The list above contains only the hardware that people have reported. If your OS can see the hardware, so can Bacula. ### Discuss. Comment. Have fun. -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference: http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
