On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:49 PM, stan <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a real problem for established (longtime) users of Amanda that have > many, many machines - many flavors of OS, some very old hardware and > mission critical production software that can't be replaced. ... > It appears as though a lot of useful, and interesting new functionality is > being added to Amanda, and I will regret not being able to take advantage > of this, but our job is to keep the control systems operating, everything > else must come second to that.
I certainly do not want to be responsible for boilers running dry -- that sounds dangerous! As you indicate in your final paragraph, this was a decision we made some time ago, after much deliberation. I'm keen on the idea of "freezing" and stripping down a perl-free, Glib-free version of the Amanda client for cases such as yours. Certainly, nothing we're doing precludes this option -- client/server backward compatibility is paramount -- but we don't have the resources to create and maintain such a mini-client. This might make an interesting project for someone here - any takers? Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
