From: Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 19:04:19 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Put depreciation notice in manual DVD chapter
X-Git-Tag: Release-5.2.3~2
X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5b4777a1e126859cf97c7fb60f74fae12a6f73e7;p=bacula%2Fdocs

Put depreciation notice in manual DVD chapter
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diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/misc/dvd.tex b/docs/manuals/en/misc/dvd.tex
index 88811365..c63ec14c 100644
--- a/docs/manuals/en/misc/dvd.tex
+++ b/docs/manuals/en/misc/dvd.tex
@@ -8,6 +8,20 @@
 \index[general]{DVD Writing}
 \index[general]{Volumes!DVD}
 
+Please note that the DVD code is depreciated, that is
+we no longer support it, and in a future version it will
+be removed.  The code is very likely not to work.
+
+The reason we have depreciated it is that writing to DVD
+devices is not very reliable, and more modern devices
+such as USB sticks or USB drives are much more reliable.
+
+Just the same if you want to write Bacula Volumes to DVDs,
+or CDs, you can do so by limiting the size of the Bacula
+volume to be slightly smaller than the device, then when
+you are ready, you simply write the volume to the DVD by
+using any standard DVD burning program.
+
 Bacula allows you to specify that you want to write to DVD. However,
 this feature is implemented only in version 1.37 or later.
 You may in fact write to DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, or DVD-RW