Re: Introducing Bacula News - one place for Bacula Community news
Rob Gerber <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Jul 2026 11:00:04 -0500
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--===============2909699538280319014== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000b4a7b40656077c57" --000000000000b4a7b40656077c57 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I like your idea, Marcin. I also feel like we would benefit from a central location to store some frequently discussed topics, so we can easily link people to the information they need. For example, there is much confusion about acquiring a repo link from the bacula project. If we could link to a page with information about this, that would be great. I volunteer to help write such an article, if you are interested in hosting such content. I have also thought some basic configuration guides might be helpful, as a starting point to new bacula users. The bacula manual is very daunting. I feel like there is not a lot of "quick start" information. On the other hand, instructions like "paste this information into your config file" glosses over important bacula information that is contained in the manual. I think at minimum configuration examples could be useful. An example of a configuration example I would have found useful is setting up bacula with cloud copy jobs, and object locking. I do not think object locking is mentioned anywhere in the bacula documentation. This is an area where the information doesn't include only bacula knowledge, but also knowledge from another area. One thing I have lamented about the mailing list structure is that it isn't easily searched, and people cannot easily find the information they need like can be done on stack exchange etc. I don't know if you find interesting the idea of hosting a wiki or some other source of bacula knowledge beyond news, but these are the thoughts on my mind. Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 [email protected] On Tue, Jul 7, 2026, 10:51=E2=80=AFAM Marcin Haba <[email protected]> wro= te: > On Tue, 7 Jul 2026 at 13:21, Elias Pereira <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > hello Marcin, > > > > That's a great initiative. > > > > Just yesterday I did some research on the Bacula community and didn't > find much information about it. I read something on the Bacula mailing li= st > about new releases, but nothing very detailed. > > > > That's really cool!!! > > Hello Elias, > > Thank you for your positive feedback :-) > > Great to hear that this news service is useful for you. This very > motivates our team and confirms that the mission makes sense. > > Best regards, > Marcin Haba > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > --000000000000b4a7b40656077c57 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"auto"><div>I like your idea, Marcin.=C2=A0</div><div dir=3D"aut= o"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">I also feel like we would benefit from a cen= tral location to store some frequently discussed topics, so we can easily l= ink people to the information they need. For example, there is much confusi= on about acquiring a repo link from the bacula project. If we could link to= a page with information about this,=C2=A0that would be great. I volunteer = to help write such an article, if you are interested in hosting such conten= t.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">I have also thought s= ome basic configuration guides might be helpful, as a starting point to new= bacula users. The bacula manual is very daunting. I feel like there is not= a lot of "quick start" information.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br><= /div><div dir=3D"auto">On the other hand, instructions like "paste thi= s information into your config file" glosses over important bacula inf= ormation that is contained in the manual. I think at minimum configuration = examples could be useful.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto= ">An example of a configuration example I would have found useful is settin= g up bacula with cloud copy jobs, and object locking. I do not think object= locking is mentioned anywhere in the bacula documentation. This is an area= where the information doesn't include only bacula knowledge, but also = knowledge from another area.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"a= uto">One thing I have lamented about the mailing list structure is that it = isn't easily searched, and people cannot easily find the information th= ey need like can be done on stack exchange etc.=C2=A0</div><div dir=3D"auto= "><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">I don't know if you find interesting the = idea of hosting a wiki or some other source of bacula knowledge beyond news= , but these are the thoughts on my mind.=C2=A0</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br><= /div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature">Robert Gerber<b= r>402-237-8692<br><a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></div= ></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr= " class=3D"gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 7, 2026, 10:51=E2=80=AFAM Marcin Haba &l= t;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:= <br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8= ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 7 Jul 2= 026 at 13:21, Elias Pereira <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" targe= t=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> > hello Marcin,<br> ><br> > That's a great initiative.<br> ><br> > Just yesterday I did some research on the Bacula community and didn= 9;t find much information about it. I read something on the Bacula mailing = list about new releases, but nothing very detailed.<br> ><br> > That's really cool!!!<br> <br> Hello Elias,<br> <br> Thank you for your positive feedback :-)<br> <br> Great to hear that this news service is useful for you. This very<br> motivates our team and confirms that the mission makes sense.<br> <br> Best regards,<br> Marcin Haba<br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Bacula-users mailing list<br> <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank" rel= =3D"noreferrer">[email protected]</a><br> <a href=3D"https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users" rel= =3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/= lists/listinfo/bacula-users</a><br> </blockquote></div> --000000000000b4a7b40656077c57-- --===============2909699538280319014== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --===============2909699538280319014== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --===============2909699538280319014==--