On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 at 5:21am, Pro-Fit wrote > Machine A has new amanda and is configured to be the > backup server > (it has the tape drive). Machine B is the client. It > also has the > amanda software, but it was installed at an earlier > time, and was > configured to use a different --with-config, and it > was setup to be > a server. > > 1. Does the client thinks it's the server, even though > I can connect > to it from the main amanda server using amcheck?
Nope. > 2. Do I need to completely remove amanda on machine b, > and run setup > using the without-server option along with the > with-index-server and > with-tape-server options? No, you don't *have* to, but it can make things easier. > 3. Can I modify the client's amanda.conf file to point > to the main > amanda server? Clients don't ever touch an amanda.conf. You can just remove it. > 4. If I need to uninstall amanda, is just a matter of > deleting all > instances of amanda (files and directories)? That depends on how it was installed. If it was installed via something like rpm or apt, use those to uninstall it. > 5. Can I run the latest version of amanda, and > *assume* it will > overwrite the existing config? The with-config that's > on the client > is the default config. I've modified the with-config > on the server > install. Not necessarily, unless you know the ./configure options used to build the client version. I'd uninstall it if you plan on installing a new version. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
