On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Hauke Fath wrote: > Amanda as she stands is very much a unix administrators' tool. Five > machines are fine, fifteen even better. That is a setup in which an > "administrator" who cannot work himself out of a paper bag without a set > of shiny rpms will eventually find himself in trouble.
I think amanda falls under the qmail/smtpd category. If you have trouble installing it, maybe you should rethink whether you are qualified to implement the backup procedure. I'm not trying to be rude or take the "elite attitude", but there are some systems that should only be admined by qualified individuals; to do otherwise is to create an environment for disaster. Amanda is a backup solution. Backup is a key element to any network setup, it is not something one should just implement and forget about. This is why so many are fed up with many of the commercial backup products, those products tend to hide as much of the details as possible. But knowing those details can at times mean the difference between huge data loss or saving the day yet again. Amanda may take a bit of effort to install, but in the process one learns quite a bit about how it works and what to expect. And once learned, further amanda installs are like falling off a log. $.02 Bill Carlson -- Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Anything is possible, Virtual Hospital http://www.vh.org/ | given time and money. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics | Opinions are mine, not my employer's. |
