Thanks John, for your reply.
**** JRJ => John R. Jackson
JRJ >>1) After a careful search of the files installed from the rpm, it
JRJ >>looks like I have not got any amanda.conf file (strange). ...
JRJ >
JRJ >That's because you need to set all that up yourself, probably by
JRJ >starting with the sample that should have been installed by the RPM
JRJ >(you'd have to read your RPM documentation to find where they put it).
JRJ >Have you read the docs/INSTALL file? You may also want to read:
Well, it seems like these RPMs do not contain the amanda.conf file as
shown below:
[pinto@pc2990 RPM]$ rpm -ql amanda | grep conf
[pinto@pc2990 RPM]$ rpm -ql amanda-server | grep conf
/usr/lib/amanda/getconf
[pinto@pc2990 RPM]$ rpm -ql amanda-client | grep conf
moreover...
[pinto@pc2990 RPM]$ ls -l /etc/amanda
ls: /etc/amanda: No such file or directory
[pinto@pc2990 RPM]$ whereis amanda
amanda: /usr/lib/amanda /usr/man/man8/amanda.8
JRJ >Huh? What do you mean you're backup up to a disk? Amanda backs up
JRJ >to tape. And why would you send all that traffic through the worst file
JRJ >protocol in existence, SMB, to one of the worst OS's in existence, NT?
It's because my disk space on the NT server is backed up on a tape
drive every night. I don't own any tape drive nor I think I could get
one. I posted a message to news:linux.redhat in which I explained that
I was going to do a back-up on a NT server disk and I was sent to
Amanda.
JRJ >(Not that I have any strong opinions about Microsoft, or anything like
JRJ >that :-).
No, of course not.
Thanks
Massimo
Massimo Pinto
Ph.D. student
Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust
http://www.graylab.ac.uk/usr/pinto
