On Wed February 12 2003 05:35, Bernd Broermann wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Do you know of a UI Frontend for AMNANDA ?
>
>I mean a shell, perl, python script ,
>which is an menu driven program to lable
>recover , manage the backups.
>
>Thanks
>Bernd

AFAIK, nobody ever got around to doing one of those, mainly because 
when you need to recover, the likelyhood of haveing that fancy gui 
available is somewhere between nil and .00zip.  In that event you 
are expected to get your fingernails a bit dirty running tar or 
dump because a recovery can be largely done with nothing more than 
a bare bones os (re-)install that includes tar (or uhgg, dump), 
gzip, mt to manipulate the drive and dd to extract the data.

Anything else is eye candy.  Nothing from amanda is required to do a 
recover although there are those utils for a fully functioning 
system.

As far as managing the backups, thats the job of a user 'amanda's 
crontab entry and how the various configuration files are built.  
It doesn't need any management, and if you try to force your ideas 
on amanda, you're just making life difficult for one heck of a good 
backup utility.

There are even those here who, if you insist on doing it your way, 
would rather you used some other utility designed for human 
intervention.  Amanda is not, although she can take gentle nudges 
and hints from time to time via modifications to the config files 
once you get to know her...

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