RE: Frontend , UI for amanda ?

2003-04-01 Thread Thomas Hu
First of all thanks to all responded. As I mentioned I am not igniting a fire so am not to address individually though I have different view. Just want to clarify that when I mentioned "friendly user interface" I did say not necessary a GUI. I feel sorry many ignored that. Unix Kernel, IBM MVS,

RE: Frontend , UI for amanda ?

2003-03-31 Thread Thomas Hu
Gene made some points but not all I agree with. Friendly user interface (not necessary "fancy" GUI) is a measure of all good quality software products. Amanda is not beyond the scope of this view. Amanda is client-server based product. This means, while its client might be in "bare" OS, amanda s

RE: Pornography

2003-03-20 Thread Thomas Hu
Have we enjoyed talking about spam so far? Is this still an "amanda" list? Are we interested in spam more than in amanda? Finally, is enough enough? Thomas

RE: RE: differential vs incremental backups

2003-03-18 Thread Thomas Hu
/bk/today? That way you just need amanda doing full backup every time for /bk/today. Hope helpful. Thomas -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 3:30 PM To: Thomas Hu Cc: 'Bernhard Beck'; [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: differential vs incremental backups

2003-03-18 Thread Thomas Hu
Dereferencing the symlinks is up to tar or gtar and I believe can be specified within amanda configuration. However, extra caution has to be taken in recovering as by default the link would be disconnected and filled in with actual data. Two issues can merge up. One is the disk space of filesystem

RE: What is the best way to use a second tape changer device?

2003-03-18 Thread Thomas Hu
Good question. I would like to know too. Also, I would like to know if I can put the second drive as "standby" as well as for recovering--- just in case an urgent recovering is demanded while regular backup is going on. Thomas -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: amandad error

2003-03-17 Thread Thomas Hu
Same Amanda id on both machines? Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bao Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:29 PM To: amanda Subject: amandad error Hi list, I tested with Amanda-2.4.4 on a test machine and it is ok. But when I moved to the