Thanks for you suggest. Can I use amanda 2.4.2p2-7 that equip with Red Hat 7.3 Thanks, Theewara
----- Original Message ----- From: "BRINER Cedric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Theewara Vorakosit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "_amanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 8:38 PM Subject: Re: Can I use amanda without tape backup? > On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 09:41, Theewara Vorakosit wrote: > > Dear All, > > I have 2 machines running Red Hat 7.3. I want to back up content > of these machines into an other machines periodically. I plan to use > amanda > but I don't have tape drive. Can I use amanda to backup into a hard > disk? > If you can't use amanda, would you please suggest me about backup > software. > > Thanks, > > Theewara > > I've made it work...on sun solaris ! > for this you have to create a folder which will be like the tape device. > > You have to use amanda-2.4.3b3 b mean BETA > and in the amanda.conf file > for the entry: > tapedev "file:/unige/amanda/bckp/" > > I didn't really look deep in amanda source code...but I feel that the > developer guys have made like a wrapper around amanda to make a > repertory behave like a tape. > > so In my case the repertory looks like; > > atalante:bckp 171> ls -l > total 28 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 obs_bkp sys 6 Aug 16 14:45 data -> sb06_1/ > -rw------- 1 obs_bkp sys 11 Aug 16 15:20 info > lrwxrwxrwx 1 obs_bkp sys 27 Aug 12 14:41 sb01_1 -> > /net/obssb1/export/diskB1/1/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 obs_bkp sys 27 Aug 12 14:41 sb01_2 -> > /net/obssb1/export/diskB1/2/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 obs_bkp sys 27 Aug 12 14:09 sb02_1 -> > /net/obssb2/export/diskB1/1/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 obs_bkp sys 27 Aug 12 14:42 sb02_2 -> > /net/obssb2/export/diskB1/2/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 obs_bkp sys 27 Aug 16 00:43 sb03_1 -> > /net/obssb3/export/diskB1/1/ > > in this folder the only thing that you really have to create is the data > link who has to point a folder on a disk with enough space to keep the > backup. > > The file info is created/used by amanda --> so don't pay attention to it > > and the other link like sb1_1 sb_1 are linked to HD's spread around the > LAN 'cause at each run we backup about 40 Gb. > > an that's it > >
