I agree, this topic is largely uncovered in the documentation. I spent
several days trying to figure out how to set things up, until I realized
that amanda had to be installed in full on the client machines as well. I
had incorrectly assumed that amanda used some kind of UNIX networking to
suck the data from the client computers, but I was confused as to why I
never had to specify any authentication to be able to access those
computers.
As for massive overkill, it only installs less than a meg of binaries on
each client. Not too bad. Compare that with Windows bloatware, and it's
microscopic. :)
---- Eric Wadsworth
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Harri Haataja wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Randolph Cordell wrote:
>
> > How is installing for the clients different than for the server? That is not
> > evident in anything I've read (README, INSTALL and the entire chapter online
> > at www.amanda.org). Do I need to do the whole ./configure, make, make
> > install process for each client? IT seems that's massive overkill.
>
> You can configure them --without-server. Otherwise, it's pretty much the
> same.
>
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