Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:11:06PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:

Jon LaBadie wrote:

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

Did something similar, thought didn't split it as much. I wonder if the amanda developers would accept a submission of an updated split up default config...

/etc/amanda
|-- DailyFile1
|   |-- amanda.conf
|   |-- disklist -> ../disklist
|   `-- tapelist
|-- DailySet1
|-- DailyTape1
|   |-- amanda.conf
|   |-- disklist -> ../disklist
|   `-- tapelist
|-- WeeklyTape1
|   |-- amanda.conf
|   |-- disklist -> ../disklist
|   `-- tapelist
|-- amanda-common.conf
|-- crontab.amanda
|-- disklist
`-- exclude.gtar

I edited the above slightly, eg. editor backups~ did not seem relevant.

I have no idea.

My individual reaction is that it might be best included as a set of
example configs.  I suspect that many new (and maybe older) amanda
admins would love to see a sample virtual tape configuration, a daily
compared to weekly config, ...  But to have them as the "default" ...?

Ok, s/default/bundled/