On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 06:25:49PM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: > But, if using Centos, are you using their often outdated amanda rpms, > or building amanda from scratch, which is what the huge majority of us > recommend. Other than using the FILE driver now instead of the TAPE > driver, I've been using the same script to configure and build amanda > as each snapshot is released for 4 or 5 years now. By having all the > options in a script, each succeeding version simply slides into place > with a 'make install' as root after running the script to build it as > the user amanda, followed by a quick 'ldconfig' to bring all the > library links into order. I usually have it built and installed the > same day as the release, so I am able to function somewhat like the > canary in the coal mine, reporting any breakages before too many get > burnt. 2 such cases in 5 years speaks very well of amanda I think.
Or you can follow my guide at http://www.math.ohiou.edu/~hyclak/casit/amanda/ and get the best of both worlds :-) Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
