On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 12:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 10:54, Tim Holmes wrote: > > > Charles -- I am more than willing to try anything at this point, > > however, I am new to linux, and so I will need a little guidance getting > > through the process that you described (having cron tarbal the files and > > move them) -- it sounds like a valid plan, I am just gonna need some > > help getting it done. > > > > As far as Amanda -- I have seen it when doing installs, but I know > > nothing about it, is it a backup server or a remote client, any other > > info would be appreciated > > Amanda generally wants to write directly to a tape drive on the machine > running the server. If you are interested in an on-line disk based > solution, look at backuppc: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ---- Amanada has both a client and server application. Thus on the computer that has the tape drive, it would need both. Any other system would only need the client. Apparently there is a version in CVS that backs up to filesystem and judging by my experience with Amanda, they are likely to do a very good job at that. I don't believe that the version distributed with Fedora 3 will do that though. Craig
