On Feb 8, 2013, at 5:21 PM, neal lawson <amanda-for...@backupcentral.com> wrote:
> i chose ruby since its a stable modern language i know, and most linux > distributions already ship with 1.8.7, further more Amanda should be agnostic > to the language that the helper scripts use. If Amanda requires i use perl, > it might be time to find another backup solution. Amanda is certainly agnostic as far as helper scripts/Applications are concerned. The only advantage to using Perl would be that you can use the included Amanda API, avoiding re-coding some functions and having an easier interaction with the rest of the amanda system. If that's not an issue, then Ruby should do fine. > Markus Iturriaga Woelfel, it seems the repo you referenced no longer exists, > Markus Iturriaga Woelfel https://github.com/marxarelli/amlvm-snapshot still works for me. I'm all for a ground-up rewrite of the LVM script though. I don't know if I can contribute much in Ruby, but I'd be interested in seeing design decisions discussed. I don't know if this is the right forum - depends on the Amanda.org folks, I guess. I wrote the snapshot scripts we use for BackupPC (which we also use for backups) in Perl, so I have some experience writing scripts that interact with LVM. I can't promise they're elegant though. I've never made them publicly available mostly because they are hacks, but they do work. :) Markus --- Markus A. Iturriaga Woelfel, IT Administrator Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Tennessee Min H. Kao Building, Suite 424 / 1520 Middle Drive Knoxville, TN 37996-2250 mitur...@eecs.utk.edu / (865) 974-3837 http://twitter.com/UTKEECSIT
