Hi, I am not shure, I understood, what amanda is able to do:
in the company I have 2 Win NT Server 4 SP6 1 Novell 3.12 1 Digital Alpha DEC/OSF 1 Win NT 4 Workstation (is to be changed to SUSE 7.3) 1 SuSE e-Mail Server II Most of them have a tape drive and do their backups. But most of these tape drives are on there bounds, I mean, they would need a second tape to backup all theier datas. i solved the problem now, by doing a complete backup about once a month, and then only backing up the datas beeing changed since the "monthly" backup. It is horrible, because I have would like to have the backups performed when noone is working to keep the datas consistent, so I have an other weekend job changing tapes. The horror is increased, because it is growing spring/summer and my motobikes are waiting for me ;-) ! So I have the idea (and my boss is willing to spend some money - not because of the motobikes- ): I install a PC with about 160GB space on IDE-HD and a tape-autoloader. It is getting Linux and amanda. My dream would be, I have amanda do a complete copy from (most of) the other servers to the HD and then (maybe during day) do a backup on mutliple tapes of the autoloader. So I change 4 or 5 tapes once a day and have an actual copy of all my datas on the HDs and on the tapes the yesterdays copy. Can this work? Is this normal function or something special hardly to configure, only with direkt mental help from a amanda-guru and some special rare herbs growing in the upmost peaks of himalaya, working only when gathered in deepest night with golden sickle, ... ? Thanks for any hints. Martin Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
