On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Charles Curley wrote: >Per Dustin's request, I did a bit of hacking on the readme. My draft is >attached. I culled the release notes and NEWS file. I'd appreciate >comments and corrections back by the end of the business day Monday. > >A few questions: > >The current example of a fast dump involves filling 2 GB tapes in four >hours.
Boy is that slow. I used ti fill a 4GB in < 2hrs. >Has anyone got a more modern example? As I don't use tapes I >can't provide one. (Several might be nice for the success stories page, >http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda_success_stories.) I have been using vtapes now for a couple of years, and a 30GB backup is an hour & 15 mins, sometimes less. >The copyright notice is U of M through 1998. How are subsequent >contributions licensed? I conjecture under the same terms, but as this >is a legal question I thought I should ask. > >I don't see the files KERBEROS.HOW-TO-GET or docs/KERBEROS in trunk. >Reference to them should probably go away. > >Also, I note that the README refers to two files which no longer exist, >COPYRIGHT-REGEX and COPYRIGHT-APACHE. Unless there is good reason not >to, I think I should remove the reference to them. Again, as this deals >with copyrights, I thought I should ask. > >Finally, we can probably update the list of known compatible systems. >Additions and deletions, particularly of version numbers, are welcome. >For example, I suspect we can reasonably restrict Linux to version 2.6 >kernels. > > AIX 3.2 and 4.1 > BSDI BSD/OS 2.1 and 3.1 > DEC OSF/1 3.2 and 4.0 > FreeBSD 2.2.5 > IRIX 5.2 and 6.3 > GNU/Linux on x86, m68k, alpha, sparc, arm and powerpc > Mac OS X 10 > NetBSD 1.0 > Nextstep 3 (*) > OpenBSD 2.5 x86, sparc, etc (ports available) > SunOS 4.1.x (x >= 1) and 5.[567] > Ultrix 4.2 > HP-UX 9.x and 10.x (x >= 01) > > >Thank you. > -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> People who make no mistakes do not usually make anything.
