On Wednesday 16 July 2003 06:21, Anders Norrbring wrote: >> > Have I misunderstood the whole concept here? >> > I thought (after searching the web) that amanda should provide a >> > nice >> >> and >> >> > friendly X interface, or at least a web page to do administering >> > and job control in? >> >> No X interface. But of course, you can use any X-capable editor >> to edit the conf-files. >> Hey, we're all sysadmins; we are the command line oriented kind of >> people -- at least I am, speaking for myself here... > >Well, me too.. But, there are others using the system, and the > don't always 'settle' for a nightly backup of entire systems. They > need (for a reason I'm too stupid to understand) backups every now > and then of files they need to archive immediately (at any time > *sigh*) and store away in their private office safe. (?) > >> > After what I've seen so far, trying to find any documentation at >> > all, is that it's completely .conf file manoeuvred? If I want >> > to change >> >> anything, >> >> > let's say awhat files should be backed up in this run, I need to >> > edit a .conf file, and then run it? >> >> You only have to edit the conf-files when you add or delete >> hosts/disks. Normally this is not a day to day task. >> The backup itself is normally run by a cronjob at night, >> without need for an X-interface either. >> In the morning I read the mail generated by amanda, in a nice >> x-environment, yes. >> >> But, this morning I just learned another acronym on this list: >> PCABM. > >*LOL* Yeah.. :) But that doesn't really save my ass from the > users. And since the server they want to use as "their" backup > server isn't the main backup server (which by the way it Legato and > DLT-robot powered) it can't cost a lot to build it as a "personal > backup server". That in turn puts me in trouble, because the only > tape drive I have available to that server is a HP Colorado (Travan > TR-5) drive connected to the parallel port (shows up at /dev/pt0). > >Try to find a nice backup app with a friendly i/f that can use that > kind of drive... *sigh*
My personal experience with the TR-X drives wasn't exactly a honeymoon, and running it thru the parport has got to be so slow as to discourage its use after one pass by the user. The drive will probably 'shoe-shine' itself into oblivion in due time. If the machine has a scsi card in it, something more recent that an Adaptec 154x, then they who want that should be encouraged to search ebay for a suitable DDS2 drive, they are often less than a $50 USD bill, and uses $2.50 tapes (ebay again) whereas the Travan TR-5 tape is about $50 each. Probably less on ebay though. How big are these 'personal' files? Could they be put on a CD with a writer? There are numerous methods which will get smaller jobs done. -- 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.
