On 5/29/05, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 29 May 2005 14:50, Gentian Hila wrote: > >It it my first time trying to use AMANDA for backup. I went ahead > > and read the chapter on amanda from the book Backup and recovery in > > Unix, but it seemed to me very complicated. > > > >I have a RedHat ES 3 system and I am using an external usb HDD to > >backup the whole system. I want to do a full backup once a week and > >incremental backups every other day of the week. > > > >I installed rpm amanda 2.4 ( Might look for 2.5 if it is as an rpm > >outthere yet). > > > >I am looking for some short manual (not too complicated and with all > >of the options) on how to configure amanda to do backups on Hard > > drive . > > > >Does somebody know something like that ? Thanks a lot for the help > > I can probably help except it will be for a tarball built 2.4.5, and > I've no idea how to make a usb hard drive work, mine are all on std > ata133 controllers. I'm using a 200GB for this, and have been for > several months. > > Generally speaking, the rpm versions of amanda are often built with > some option set wrong, and you'll find that this whole group pretty > much endorses buiding it from tarballs as that lets you set things > according to std practice. My first, and last attempt to use the > rpms was a disaster, but that was also 5+ years ago. > > If interested, reply back. To the list. > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly > Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above > message by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. >
Well, I thought maybe rpm would be easier, but I do not mind installing it from a tarball. Whatever works better. Also what I wanted to point out is that I want to backup on hard drive not in tape. I have already mounted the hard drives.
