From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 11 7:33:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 136F246A5 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 07:33:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10387 invoked by uid 1825); 11 Feb 2000 15:33:34 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Feb 2000 15:33:34 -0000 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:33:34 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: Paul Boehmer Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Amanda In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000211081851.007bcaf0@mail.seidata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Paul Boehmer wrote: > I think we all can agree that Amanda is very cumbersome to use and that is > probably the biggest reason people shy away from it. It is indeed a very > powerful and for the experienced, one of the better programs out. Actually, it's really not that complicated to set up, and, IMHO, once you do get it set up, it saves you alot of time and stress. they give you a sample amanda.conf file, just take your time going through it. It's pretty much a set it and forget it thing, from a config point of view. > What is needed is a good front end for Amanda, either console or X11. I > have not been able to find one available for FreeBSD. If someone knows > about one or is currently working on one, I think we would all appreciate > hearing about it. I can think of alot of other things it could use before that...such as an the ability to work through ssh, an option to append multiple backups to the same tape, a good working option to do backups to disk, etc. James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message