1. REBDA (Read Everything Before Doing Anything) 2. Be prepared to run the configure/install process a few times until you get it the way you want.
3. Remember to do both the server setup and client setup on the server. 4. Start by just backing up the backup server. 5. Start by changing tapes by hand. Add the changer once all the clients are working. 6. /tmp/amanda/*debug 7. Yes it's a complex install, but the reward is industrial-strength cross-platform backup and restore that you can hack to your specifications. (No Backup Exec bitterness here, no.) 8. Build your own. Whoever made the RPM or DEB didn't have your network in mind. Any other suggestions from the list? > -----Original Message----- > From: W. D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: KEVIN ZEMBOWER > Subject: Re: Amanda install reality check > > > Any hints, tips or gotchas that would be helpful for the > 'uninitiated'? (Especially FreeBSD & HP SureStore DAT 40) > > At 14:09 2/6/2002, KEVIN ZEMBOWER, wrote: > >For-what-it's-worth dept.: In the year that I've been a > full-time Unix > >system administrator, I guess I've installed 40-50 different > packages, > >mostly from source. Amanda was the second most time-consuming and > >difficult; only Xwindows was harder for me. > > > >-Kevin Zembower > > > >----- > >E. Kevin Zembower > >Unix Administrator > >Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs > >111 Market Place, Suite 310 > >Baltimore, MD 21202 > >410-659-6139 > > > >>>> gene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/06/02 01:49PM >>> > ><snip> > >I seem to be really struggling to get this to work. I did think it > >would > >be easier than this ;-) > ></snip> > >Gene > > Start Here to Find It Fast!� -> http://www.US-Webmasters.com/start.htm >
