>This is my first message to the list ...
Welcome!
>1) After a careful search of the files installed from the rpm, it
>looks like I have not got any amanda.conf file (strange). ...
That's because you need to set all that up yourself, probably by
starting with the sample that should have been installed by the RPM
(you'd have to read your RPM documentation to find where they put it).
Have you read the docs/INSTALL file? You may also want to read:
http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html
If, for some reason, the RPM didn't install the sample, contact me
offline and I'll make it available.
>2) I just need to make sure I am on the right track here. As far as I
>understand, Amanda needs to be installed on the client and on the
>server. ...
Correct.
>I will be backing up files from a local /dev/hda disk to a
>network disk that I have mounted with the samba protocol under my
>/mnt/NTgroups tree. ...
Huh? What do you mean you're backup up to a disk? Amanda backs up
to tape. And why would you send all that traffic through the worst file
protocol in existence, SMB, to one of the worst OS's in existence, NT?
(Not that I have any strong opinions about Microsoft, or anything like
that :-).
>... I am not sure as to whether I need to install Amanda on
>the NT server (or my administrator should) or, once I have mounted the
>network disk, my computer becomes the amanda server.
Amanda only runs on Unix, not NT. The computer with the tape drive is
your Amanda server, and it has to be Unix.
>Massimo
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
