[rhelv6-beta-list] Amanda-server?

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On 07/07/2010 10:15 PM, Andy Feldt wrote:
>> I was glad to see that the amanda-client (and associated amanda)
>> package made it into Beta 2 after not being in Beta 1.  Does
>> anyone know if amanda-server will be included in the final
>> release?  We run our backup server under RHEL and are hoping
>> to avoid maintaining the server software ourselves (but at
>> least all our clients are covered now).
>
> Not sure about EL plans but it is highly likely that any major
> components like this will be part of EPEL if not in RHEL so you don't
> have to maintain in yourself but if you are interested in doing so, EPEL
> is a volunteer community and welcomes participation.

Commercial support for Amanda is also available from the current
maintainers of the source tree at www.zmanda.org. They do interesting
work. I've found the open source Amanda to be very powerful and
flexible, and blessedly free of proprietary formats so the tapes can
be recovered by any OS. (I wrote  what was perhaps the first SunOS
port of it many years back.)