Have I misunderstood the whole concept here? I thought (after searching the web) that amanda should provide a nice and friendly X interface, or at least a web page to do administering and job control in?
No X interface. But of course, you can use any X-capable editor to edit the conf-files. Hey, we're all sysadmins; we are the command line oriented kind of people -- at least I am, speaking for myself here...
After what I've seen so far, trying to find any documentation at all, is that it's completely .conf file manoeuvred? If I want to change anything, let's say awhat files should be backed up in this run, I need to edit a .conf file, and then run it?
You only have to edit the conf-files when you add or delete hosts/disks. Normally this is not a day to day task. The backup itself is normally run by a cronjob at night, without need for an X-interface either. In the morning I read the mail generated by amanda, in a nice x-environment, yes.
But, this morning I just learned another acronym on this list: PCABM.
(see: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/45102 )
-- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************
