On Tuesday 09 July 2002 16:54, Lorenzo Canovi wrote: >Hi there. > >Anyone is working on this topic? > >I know that we are all "command-line" oriented, here :-) but when > I try to propose amanda to my customers this is the main question > (not "reiable?" or "scalable?" ... strange people) ...
While I can see a use for a "gui" for amanda, if I were writing it (which I can't just yet) I would have it do the disklist, amanda.conf, .amandahosts and the appropriate crontab entries plus any kerberos related setups for the networking aspect of it. In other words, a one-time setup, or modify setup utility. Would I try to make it a one-time cli generator so folks could do a backup anytime they felt like it? No way hosea. Amanda isn't really designed to be run "interactively" , she wants a fixed, reasonably consistent set of rules to go by so she knows what she did last night, and can adjust what she does tonight accordingly. Reliable? I've now used amanda for 3 recoveries, each of which went exactly as the man pages said they should. I'd call that 100% reliability. Others can testify about it in the same vein once its properly configured and running, which does take some hand-holding from time to time for the configure to fit your system part. But thats what the net (and this list) is for. Scalable? ISTR a message went thru here a few weeks back claiming that users responsiblility was a terrabyte plus but its not in my history here. Terrabyte + ? I'd call that scalable, so whats the problem? If folks want a backup with a gui, send them off to arkeia, its right purty, but warn them about the 4 digit price in USD for a typical small businesses system requirements. And the first digit isn't a 0 or a 1... I ran the freebie for a few months, on a single tape drive. When I needed the recovery, even dd couldn't read the tape I needed, the drive had gone south I think. It went in the bin and arkiea was never re-installed because they wouldn't even think of talking to a home user about their library code package and I had already bought this changer. I think that will put your questioners view of reliability under a somewhat brighter lamp. BRU is a bit more reasonably priced, but in 3 installs of the latest as of 4 months ago trial download, I failed to get it to talk to a Seagate CTL-96 3 times, using 2 different samples of that changer. Both of them are working great with amanda FWTW although I did have to junk one cheap adaptec scsi card before it worked on the second drive... -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.06% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
