Steve, Numerous individuals have already told you how, and have commented on their disbelief at your inability to figure this out yourself, given your technical background.
Ryan Steve Newcomb wrote: > How do I get off this list? > > I used to use Amanda, and I'm grateful for many (!) years of good > service from it, but I finally got tired of changing tapes and > worrying about them, and I didn't want to buy expensive new tape > equipment and even-more-expensive tapes just to keep using Amanda. > (Unlike the current occupants of the White House, I don't depend on > tape recycling to excuse the destruction of evidence of my bad > behaviors.) The modern Amanda solution of using disks as if they were > tapes just doesn't make sense to me. Why pretend that these things > are tapes? So I wrote my own system in Python, and it's now working > well enough that I've turned off Amanda forever. It's not that I > don't like Amanda. I just don't like tapes, or tape drives, and I > don't see why tape-like files are necessary or good. The tape > metaphor seems like a hairball to me, now that disks and Linux > software RAIDs are so cheap and easy. And with my own system, I'm now > free to script all the things that Amanda, with all its complexity and > generality, discouraged me from scripting: the capture of VMware NTFS > flat memory files only when I'm doing a level 0 backup of what's in > them, the use of reverse ssh tunnels to back up our notebooks when > they're away from home, etc. (I began to be serious about building my > own system when I learned on this list that automating the backups of > roving notebooks are problematic for Amanda.) I'm also freer to > integrate the Transparent Archivist > (http://www.flaterco.com/ta/ta.html) with it in an intimate way. Of > course, my approach isn't for everybody. It's not general. It only > works for Unix boxes, and only through ssh. It's really just for my > company, with its peculiar needs and resources, which include a > dedicated web server. > > Anyway, I don't think I have anything more to contribute to this list, > or it to me, and so I think it would be good for me to stop receiving > this mail. Unfortunately, it's not obvious how to do that, which is > the reason for this note. > > -- Steve > > Steven R. Newcomb, Consultant > Coolheads Consulting > > Co-editor, Topic Maps International Standard (ISO/IEC 13250) > Co-editor, draft Topic Maps -- Reference Model (ISO/IEC 13250-5) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.coolheads.com > > direct: +1 910 363 4032 > main: +1 910 363 4033 > fax: +1 910 454 8461 > > 268 Bonnet Way > Southport, North Carolina 28461 USA > > (This communication is not private. Since the destruction of the 1978 > Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the U.S. Congress on August > 5, 2007, no electronic communications of innocent citizens are exempt > from unsupervised and unwarranted inspection by the U.S. government.) > >