On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 at 8:32am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I would like to use amanda to backup a handful of > linux and windows NT boxes where the tape drive is > installed on one of the Windows NT boxes. Can anyone > point me in the right direction?
Yick. > LONG VERSION: > I have at my disposal both a single DLT drive as well > as a fancier tape robot. Unfortunately, both of these > are installed on a Windows NT server and due to > political constraints this can not be easily > changed at this time. My group is responsible for > administering all the servers involved. It is with > hardware changes that the political barriers are > encountered. Gah. Yick. *ptui* Sorry, just sympathizing. > A portion of the tapes in the tape robot have been > configured with software that makes them appear as a > simple filesystem. (This may or may not be useful > information.) It may be. Is there a way of remotely accessing said filesystem? > Is there any way to run an amanda server on one of the > Linux boxes but use the tape drive(s) on the Windows > NT server? I am not opposed to writting a days worth > of code to accomplish this task. If you can access the tape fs from the Linux box, you could use 2.4.3bN (note: the b stands for beta) with the file: tape device (i.e. using a file on disk as the "tape". See the amanda(8) man page as well as the mailing list archives for more details on how to do this. You could put the amanda generated tape file either directly onto the NT mounted tape fs (if you can mount it, e.g., via smbclient) or somewhere on the local disk on the Linux box and then transfer it over to the NT box (ftp?). I don't know any of directly accessing a tape device on an NT box. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
