Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Well, one of the best things about amanda is that amcheck almost always tells you exactly what's wrong. And even in my case, it was telling me - I just couldn't quite figure out how to translate what it was telling me at first. Honestly, in a year of using Amanda, after reading the FAQs during initial install, I haven't had to go back because amcheck usually told me the problem. I just peeked back at the site - the new documentation that's out there is already a great improvement. :-)--
More generally spoken:
I would really like to know how many requests on this list that at first look very mysterious break down to FAQ-kind-of-things in the end.
Ever noticed that?
I think that Amanda just has lots of "moving parts" - server config, client config, OS-specific issues, tape changer configuration, optimal cycle settings, etc... and so a lot of problems are going to manifest themselves in bizarre ways through the interaction of the various parts, but then turn out to have simple solutions. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, and I hope that my asking here something that turned out to be simple isn't looked at that way - because the next guy is going to search the archives with that message string and solve his problem. :-) I find that to be even more natural than a FAQ.
Thanks, Fran
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Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/
205.934.0653
