On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 09:44 +0100, Nigel Wade wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > 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 > > > > I'm running amanda 2.4.4p2 on FC2 and it backs up to disk just fine. It's > backing up RH9, FC1 and FC2 clients. It supports virtual tapes on disk, but > requires a fair amount of manual configuration for the "tape changer". > > It's a hairy-scary backup solution if you are used to a "real" backup > system, though. It has it's idiosyncracies, but once you get it setup you > can leave it to get on with it. I've not touched the setup in the past 6 > months, it just silently backs-up the clients every night to a 250GB USB > drive. I wouldn't want to have to re-build a system from bare-metal using an > Amanda backup though. --- I wouldn't want to have to re-build a system from bare-metal using any backup program ;-) thanks for the feedback on amanada-2.4.4p2 amanda is difficult to set up but once it's running, it's the best I have ever seen. Craig
