On Monday 30 June 2003 09:59, Jeremy Hansen wrote: >I've been using Arkeia for a while but recently my license has > expired and I'd like to try using Amanda. > >I'd like to backup all of localhost to a second hard drive in the > server. Can Amanda do this? I was looking for some quick start > like documentation to get me going but didn't see anything really > in terms of just getting a simple backup going with a local disk. > Any pointers to docs would be appreciated. >
You can do this, yes, using the FILE: device type ISTR. There is a learning curve to amanda, and the first thing to learn is that as far as amanda is concerned, because localhost means the machine it running on, its a bit too universal and it will at some point, bite you hard. Also, even when backing up its own machine, amanda uses a client-server framework, so it must be able to access the server by its FQDN. So the first thing you lose is the localhost, use the machines FQDN instead. There is a FAQ, and there was a pretty good set of docs on frankenlinux.com, but somebody said they were down a few days back, so hopefully someone will have made a mirror and can post the URL. >Thanks >-jeremy -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
