On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 16:47, Steve Follmer wrote: > FWIW I understand Solaris 9 put a lot of effort into GUI, so that is a > counter example suggesting that Sun feels that GUIs are useful to large > installations. Probably what is happening is, if you spend several years > writing and maintaining the source code for a program, you hardly need a > GUI.
There are at least 2 GUI's being developed for Amanda. http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-gui/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/amandaadm/ Also the Amanda-win32 folks have a GUI version of amrecover. One of the good features of a plain-text-file/command line utility is that people who are good at GUI's can write front-ends for them. > All I was thinking with appending was that then you wouldn't even need > the flip-flop script I recently posted but could just have a bone simple > amanda.conf that pointed amanda at a single BFD (big disk) and let it > rip until the disk was full. I guess what I'd envision, if anyone knows > of it, is an open source Second Copy 2000 that runs on unix, has a GUI, > stores in file system format for browsing/restore, and uses smbclient > for windoze boxes. Actually, the standard chg-multi script should do just fine with disks... take the example/chg-multi.conf file and replace the last few lines with: ---------------------- # What are the slot numbers used in the tape rack? firstslot 1 lastslot 4 # Enumerate the device files that go with the particular tape changer # slots. Don't forget to specify the no-rewind version of the device. slot 1 file:/bigdisk/dir1 slot 2 file:/bigdisk/dir2 slot 3 file:/bigdisk/dir3 slot 4 file:/bigdisk/dir4 ------------------ > > That said, I agree that amanda meets my needs. I like it. The support > for windows clients seems a little light (e.g. no exclude lists (since > smbclient requires gnutar)) and I would be surprised if the core > developers develop for a windows-free enviroment but more power to them. There is a separate group doing a native-Windows amanda client, [in large part by doing a tar-replacement for Windows that knows NTFS ACL's, etc.] You might look into that for a more feature-full Windows backup mechanism. http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32 Basically, the core amanda team is concentrating on what we're good at, and encouraging other folks who can add useful bits to do so as well. So if you want the GUI, contact the amanda-gui folks and offer to beta test. Similarly for the amanda-win32 client. But we like it to be clear who is working on what -- for purposes of credit, support, and (hopefully rarely) blame :-).
