On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:36:31PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> 
> Does amanda have any type of variables in its config files?  I already 
> have a common file referenced by the three amanda.conf files, as well as 
> a common disklist.  I'm thinking of a $profile so that I can define the 
> holding disk, index directories and etc in the common file...

Close, the include directive.

I got tired of seeing 99 dumptypes, 89 tapetypes, ...
in amanda.conf.  So I broke them (and others) out
into 5 separate files in a common directory.  The
5 categories (and my file names) are DumpTypes,
HoldingDisks, NetworkInterfaces, TapeTypes, and
Templates.  I have them set up like:

        ...
         |
       amanda
         |
     ------------------
     |     |     |     |
    conf1 conf2 conf3 CommonConfFiles

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