On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 at 9:59pm, Jason Hines wrote > This is a pretty heavy traffic list, so I won't bore you all with my > setup details and planned usage for Amanda, but I'm about to install the > new Amanda 2.4.3 on a RH7.3 server (Anyone working on RPMs btw?) and had > some questions.
Source is the preferred way to install amanda. > * What is the status (if any) of any clients written for MacOS and/or > Windows. Is the only non-unix solution to use Samba? A possible Win client was very recently discussed -- check the archives. I *think* some people have managed to compile amanda under OSX, but I also recall there being "issues" with this. The samba support works well. > * I will not be using a tape device. How is the support for backing up > to disk? You want the file: driver. Look in amanda(8) installed with 2.4.3 for all the gory details. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
