On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 at 11:34am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > 1. A unix machine with disk space, but no tape backup capabilities.
You'll want amanda with tapeio support. That's either the tapeio branch out of CVS or 2.4.3b2 (note that's a beta version). This treats files on disk just like they're tapes. > 2. Several windows clients whose IP is reasonably static, but does > occassionally change. (DHCP with long leases) that need to be > backed up. If their WINS names don't change, I think you should be fine (but I don't know enough (thankfully) about Windows networking to be sure). Amanda backs up 'doze clients via smbclient, and the disklist entries look like this: $SAMBA_SERVER //$DOZECLIENT/$SHARE where $SAMBA_SERVER is a *nix box with Samba installed, $DOZECLIENT is the Windows box you want backed up, and $SHARE is the specific share you want to back up. > 3. I have to be able to extract amanda's backups to a directory on > the server. (I.e. they have to be something readable and > non-proprietary, i.e. a tar or something, or if not, at least > some way to script amanda to extract) And this is amanda's strength. Amanda only schedules and execute backup programs. It doesn't actually get the bits off the disks. For that it relies on either a vendor supplied dump program or GNUtar. For Samba clients, it'll be tar (via smbclient). > I'm trying to set up amanda to backup these machines, I'll also have to > make a web management system for amanda. My question is: Can amanda do > this kind of thing? Has anyone done this? If so, how? (configuration files > are welcome if you don't mind sending). A FAQ or some sort of doc would be > great. I've started to read through some of the docs but I'd like to get > this up and running ASAP and tweak it later - so any help one can offer > would be greatly appreciated. > docs/INSTALL and docs/SAMBA are your friend. Set up your *nix server (make sure you have Samba installed), and get it to back up itself. Once that's done, adding the win clients should be trivial. You're on your own (AFAIK) as far as the web management goes. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
