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Am 2017-02-20 um 00:00 schrieb J Martin Rushton:
> Hi,
> 
> For some years now I've been running Amanda on my home network
> (CentOS 6 & 7 machines, + 1 Raspberry Pi).  I was wanting to make a
> couple of changes and realised that my documentation was out of
> date.  I've been using "The Official Amanda Documentation" by
> Weichinger et al dated July 11, 2007.  It deals with version 2.5.0.
> I note that my actual version is 3.3.3-17.el7.  I've spent a
> fruitless couple of hours chasing around the website to try and
> find the full doc set.  Is it only available online or is there a
> downloadable PDF?

good question ;-)

Speaks for amanda if you didn't need to look up docs for ~10 years!

;-)

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Back then when I did the conversion of all the docs and manpages to
docbook-xml (I would have to look up the year) it was the intention
that one would be able to generate various output formats from the
amanda-docs inside the tarball:

pdf, html, manpages, ascii text ... everything from the same
source-files (in xml)

Your pdf is one of these generated files from back then.

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The xml-manpages went into the releases, other xml-files not.
Might be reasonable in some cases as there has been no real update
process in the last years for some parts of the "amanda-docs" from my
old project (the manpages in the main project-repo have been
maintained by JLM and others, sure).

Although I still am allowed to use that shiny @amanda.org email
address, I am not involved into current documentation anymore due to
various reasons.

One could ask now "who is then?"

As far as I know, the wiki at

https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Main_Page

is the main spot to consult for amanda related issues.

Please correct me if necessary, but I think it's not as up to date as
it could be, especially since amanda-3.4.x releases came out with some
rather substantial changes/enhancements (which I am learning by trial
and error, not by reading docs or examples -> there should be more).

Regarding your original question: I don't know of any current version
of that pdf somewhere.

One of my intentions back then was to provide a base to build on ...
to get amanda-users into contributing and sharing knowhow, tricks and
tips in a way I think modern open-source projects should be run like.

Seems it needs another effort.

Stefan

  • Documentation J Martin Rushton
    • Re: Documentation Stefan G. Weichinger

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