On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:10:11PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> On 2006-03-16 18:06, Peter Farrell wrote:
> >*Matt - sorry didn't mean to respond to your personal address.
> >-pf
> >
> >On 16/03/06, Peter Farrell <peter.d.farrell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> >>Nice one Matt :-)
> >>I compiled from source... but I'll rebuild it with the option that
> >>points each client to a predifined index server. Thanks for the tip...
> 
> I compile with "--with-indexserver=amandahost", and then set up
> a DNS alias for "amandahost", pointing to whatever is the current
> host that does amanda indexing services. Let's me migrate amanda to
> another server without recompiling all the clients.
> 

Great idea.
Wonder if we could get pre-built distros to incorporate it.

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