Re: amanda for Debian
2003-04-02 12:37:09
On Wed April 2 2003 07:08, Audrey BROCHET wrote:
>Where can I find a version of amanda-2.4.4 for Debian ?
>
>Thank you
Build it.
Seriously.
Right from the tar.gz
Get it from the link to a umontreal site near the bottom of the page
at www.amanda.org.
Building and installing your own will make you much more familiar
with how amanda works than installing a deb or rpm ever will. That
in turn leads to the familiarity that will allow you to confidently
make adjustments as you optimise it for your own usages.
One hint. Huge hint... As amanda is a slowly moving target from
snapshot release to snapshot release, one way to maintain
inter-version compatibility as you upgrade it from time to time is
to make the configuration used at your site into a script that you
just copy to the src tree of each new version. That will save
headaches in future time by way of making sure each new one can
continue to run with the existing configurations, exactly as the
older version ran, but with a bugfix or two in the new one.
Using this method I ran yesterdays snapshot last night, and it
worked normally, or "great". It only takes maybe 4 to 5 minutes
(on a reasonably fast machine) to install each new one if you
follow the right proceedure.
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