On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >There's an X/OPEN backup API ... I can't
> >for the life of me remember what it's called at the moment.
>
> Do you mean NDMP? If so, that comes up here every once in a while,
I don't think so, the name doesn't ring a bell. I'll look it up at work.
> but nobody has ever been able to explain it well enough to me (including
> their web site).
>
> >Rather than specifying the actual backup utility, Amanda could specify a
> >backup *type* which is the type of data to expect back from a user
> >specified backup script.
>
> I didn't follow this. Amanda very deliberately stays away from knowing
> what the images it is managing look like. It starts some program (which
> will be more generic with DUMPER-API) and then just deals with the byte
> stream that comes out of it. What would it do with a "type"?
No idea, just a thought. Is it easy to configure the current Amanda with
an arbitrary backup script then, rather than /usr/bin/gtar or /sbin/dump?
regards,
Colin.
