i've loved using amanda for 5 years to backup ~50 partitions from various OSes (including netapps) to dat, dlt, and autoloaders, but here's a new one:
i've changed jobs and now have access to a central tape-library, which you just ftp stuff into and it takes care of all the taping operations. my role here is not one of sysadmin, but rather i'm just looking for a way to backup my local desktop, using the central tape-library rather than a local tape if possible. so i thought, "maybe setup amanda on my workstation to backup my reiserfs partitions (tar, with indexes) and then drop them into the central tape library via ftp?" it may be stupid to try to use amanda to do this, but maybe it's as easy as replacing amcheck with a script that checks ftp functionality and returns an appropriate exit code, and replacing taper with a script which ftps the images and returns appropriately. amrestore could navigate my indexes, and then i'd just grab/extract the data manually. just thought i'd pose this question here. if it's a stupid idea just say, as this isn't my only option. i'm just so used to amanda that i wonder if i can make it work in this manner without much difficulty. any advice welcome. please cc me as i'm not an active amanda-users reader right now. thx! -- +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Jon Stearley (505) 845-7571 (FAX 844-2067) | | Compaq Federal LLC High Performance Solutions | | Sandia National Laboratories Scalable Systems Integration | +--------------------------------------------------------------+
