Mike McCarty wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
wondering why you wouldn't use Amanda.
I wrote
(2) It requires learning how to use Yet Another Package when
I'm not interested in making my OS be a hobby.
Yes, a personal choice.
Well, that should end it, then. De gustibus non
disputandum est. Why are you arguing?
What in "insert deity here" makes you think I am arguing?
Yeah, that's the problem with open source software. It makes it so
hard to move to a different platform. :-)
I don't want to do builds and installs of stuff. I DID mention I didn't
want my OS to become a hobby.
Well, it seems like it is already your hobby.
BTW, it doesn't use "other than standard tools". It uses either
native dump and/or GNU tar.
Amanda is not Standard.
If you say so....
Because use of amanda makes a nice way to do backups and takes care of
Define "nice way". Again, this is my personal choice. I gave
you the reasons I made it. So, let it drop.
Ahhh.... I did. You brought it up again.
all problems one may encounter trying to maintain their own set of
NOTHING takes care of "all problems".
Right, not even the the scripts you are running or producing.
tools/scripts. Thought you may want to give it a try. You don't have
to. Just a suggestion. Have fun hacking at tar and gzip.
I have a system which has worked fine for me. I'd like to tweak
it. I don't want to learn a whole system.
Define "whole system". Or maybe you mean "hole system"?
You gonna do a port of amanda to my next OS?
And what is your next OS going to be, MSDOS?
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