On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 01:22:27PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote:
> 2005/5/19, Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>:
> > 
> > Boy Guy, you are not an experimenter are you?  :)
> > 
> 
> Well, I try. 
> 
> But I don't want to mess up the whole thing. I'm doing my best to keep
> running amanda the simplest possible.  I need to have it running in
> prod quick.  For now, I'm concentrating on getting the backup and most
> importantly the RESTORE parts OK.
> 
> When the basics will be mastered, I'll maybe play with more advanced
> options like "bumping", etc...
> 
> If I had a real "disposable" test enviroment, right now, I would try
> that syntax instead of asking the list, but considfering the effects
> such commands can have on the system, I prefer not "trying" those
> things.
> 

Long ago, in a galaxy far far away, I wanted a disposable env.
I set up a vtape one using just 3 hosts, windows, linux, unix,
each with just 1 or 2 small DLE's.  I even had a shell script
to recreate the env starting point.

Disposable test environments, another good use for the file driver.

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