On Jul 18, 2004, Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Amanda looks pretty good now that I'm figuring out how it works, but > the documentation is horrendous (especially the faq-o-matic). Yeah, the docs suck, but the main problem is that Amanda was designed to relieve the backup operator from a number of decisions that they expect to have to make. So when they look for instructions on how to make the decisions in the manual, they can't find it, because it's not there (*). What Amanda really needs is a transition guide. IIRC the chapter written by John R. Jackson for W. Curtis Preston's book was supposed to be a pretty good introduction. See www.amanda.org for an explanation. (*) It's a bit like a Linux/Unix user starting DOS for the first time: `How do I log in?' :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
