Author: "Anthony A. D. Talltree" <aad AT verio DOT net>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:40:00 -0800 (PST)
Brandon makes some good points. I'll add a couple points of my own that some may take for granted: o For a user interface to be friendly, it has to in fact be runnable. Window system interfaces tend
Author: Riccardo Parola <rick AT standardprinting DOT net>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:56:39 -0500
I'll add my two cents as if this was a survey :-) I did immensely feel that a GUI was missing when I started with AMANDA. Now I absolutely don't see a need for it for regular day to day use. Makes pe
First of all thanks to all responded. As I mentioned I am not igniting a fire so am not to address individually though I have different view. Just want to clarify that when I mentioned "friendly user
I wrote a Python GUI to handle routine administrative tasks (eject a tape, launch a backup, check the current backup's status, see what tape comes next, etc) on either the local machine or a remote s
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:43:45 -0500
AFAIK, nobody ever got around to doing one of those, mainly because when you need to recover, the likelyhood of haveing that fancy gui available is somewhere between nil and .00zip. In that event you
Gene made some points but not all I agree with. Friendly user interface (not necessary "fancy" GUI) is a measure of all good quality software products. Amanda is not beyond the scope of this view. Am
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:37:18 -0500
With which I respectfully disagree. Yes, its no doubt much nicer to do if the server is up and functioning. My point was that in the event of a meltdown, the recovery can be done with nothing more th
More heretical musings :-) More and more, as my servers improve in horsepower, I'm moving from command-line minimalist environments to GUI. I mean, having X sitting there doing nothing takes a pretty
Author: "Bort, Paul" <pbort AT tmwsystems DOT com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:23:29 -0500
Thomas, I'd like to disagree with you on a point-by-point basis: So the Linux Kernel, MVS/OS, Sendmail, and PostgreSQL are not of good quality? I disagree. AMANDA is written to be as invisible to the
Author: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix AT structbio.vanderbilt DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:31:12 -0600
Thomas, Bernd, et al: 1) This discussion probably belongs on amanda-hackers. 2) As I see it, amanda is in no way obligated to be all things to all people. In fact, that is a rather stupid way to appr
Author: Bernd Broermann <bernd AT broermann DOT com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:35:33 +0100
Hello, Do you know of a UI Frontend for AMNANDA ? I mean a shell, perl, python script , which is an menu driven program to lable recover , manage the backups. Thanks Bernd
Bernd Broermann wanted us to know: I found a program named amrecgui on sourceforge, but it doesn't build. After fixing a few includes, it fails with some funky error during the link. If you can get i