On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 at 2:19pm, root wrote
> I need a quick solution on how to do backup on Redhat 7.1 server. It
> will be running samba. Currently I'm running on NT4 as a fileserver with
> very old hardware, thus I'm thinking of migrating to Redhat running as a
> simple fileserver. The backup strategy I'm having now is a Full backup
> on Monday and incremental backups on the rest of the days(Tuesday to
> Friday) at 11pm. How do I configure Amanda to implement the same backup
You don't, unless you kludge it. Amanda decides when to do full backups.
You *can*, however, tell amanda to do a full backup once a week, and
incrementals on the other days, which is close to what you do above.
> strategy as mentioned above? Also, can Amanda do manual backups(as and
> when I like)?
Do you mean full backups (e.g. for archiving) outside of the normal
schedule? That's easy to do with a second configuration with a dumpcycle
of 0 and a large tapecycle. If that's not what you mean, then I don't
know what you mean.
> I know that I should discover all this on my own, but I'm really running
> short of time. If I can't get the backup up on Linux, then I guess I
> have to go WIndows 2000 with all those expensive licenses.
The amanda chapter on "Unix Backup and Recovery" (which is also online at
www.backupcentral.{com|org} (can't remember) is very helpful.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
