On Wednesday 13 July 2005 17:07, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:13:04PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger 
wrote:
>>>I would like to have some motivated amanda-hackers who try to move
>>> all these configure-time-params into amanda.conf ...
>>
>> When this is done, shouldn't the continued paring of amanda.conf
>> include removal of those things not specific config related?
>> Perhaps it is time for a new system-wide config file with
>> the types of parameters of amanda user ...
>
>Give me more ...
>
>Let's think something like
>
>/etc/amanda/amanda.conf
>/etc/amanda/tapetype.conf
>/etc/amanda/config/daily/daily.conf
>/etc/amanda/config/daily/daily.disklist
>
>or something like this ...

Looks interesting, tell us more.

>I would really like to develop the overall structure of
>AMANDA-configuration to a point where we can provide solid packages
> to the various distributors which simply work with just editing
> some files.
>
>This would help to bring the benefits of AMANDA to a much bigger
>audience ...
>
>As we all know, AMANDA is a scheduler, not a backup-program, so it
>should be possible to move it into that direction.
>
>Dedicated amanda-users will surely keep rolling their own binaries
>
>;-)

Eyeyuup.  Makes us feel like we actually know something. :-)
>
>Greets, Stefan.

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