This one time, at band camp, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>>On Monday 22 March 2004 05:20, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>>>You can always compile a recent amanda version yourself.
>>>It's actually quiet easy.
>>
>>
>>Quiet? Methinks you meant 'quite' since the installation of amanda 
>>from the latest tarball snapshot does not normally make any noise 
>>here.  My fingers make those sorts of mistakes all the time. :-)
>
>
>I could add as excuse that I meant: you're not expected to curse
>and swear or banging your head on the keyboard waking up your neighbours
>during amanda compilation.  The compilation phase is quiet *and* easy.

I can confirm that normal operation of amanda adds no significant noise
to the machine; the noise levels from our backup server have not changed
since our migration to amanda two weeks ago.

:-)

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