Bill Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...] > 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. Well... I think if you don't have trouble installing amanda for the first time, you are either using very good step by step instructions stating how it is done within your organization... or you are God :) > 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. Totally agreed. I also agree backups are a key element not only of networks, but of corporations. But this does not qualify as a reason why amanda installation must be complicated and can't be done using RPM. It is also true that the (approx.) month of work time that passes before your amanda backups are safe and in production in a let's say 10 client environment is valuable for the person who does it. You are getting very good knowledge of the internal processes of amanda almost automatically by studying the /tmp/amanda/* and amdump files. However, this will not help your organization when you are gone. Another guy will start learning it (installing, supervising, restoring) all over unless you have written the detailed step by step instructions mentioned above. But if you *have* written these instructions for all amanda tasks for your organization so you are replaceable, they will certainly contain shell scripts which install etc. - close to the same scripts that are in the RPM package. By the way, I do not believe in "every network is different". Every network is similar. There are many more common things in all networks than differences. Greetings, Moritz
