On Wednesday 13 July 2005 17:03, Matt Hyclak wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:45:28PM -0600, Graeme Humphries 
enlightened us:
>> > JFYI, I never had problems with the Debian Amanda packages
>> > (except for a problem with cdrw-taper, where the default config
>> > file contained a typo)...
>>
>> I'd second this, under both Debian and Ubuntu. The only issue I
>> ever saw was outdated config examples, which isn't super critical.
>
>How are tapeserver and indexserver defined then? They can't know at
> build time what that server is. You can use amanda packages from RH
> as is, but it's not the recommended way of doing things since they
> have to use localhost.

Which we all know works great for the backup, but errors out on the 
recovery.  Recovery is the reason you make backups, right?
I wonder if anybody at RH ever actually used amanda to recover 
anything...

>Matt

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