On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:01:10AM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Friday, 08.09.2006 at 01:28 -0500, Phil Howard wrote: | | > These packages configure the user to run Amanda as "backup". But it | > seems the "backup" user also does other things. Does anyone see any | > possible conflict in this? | | I'd say "may be used for other things", rather than "also does other | things", really. | | To be honest, a user called backup makes more sense than a user called | 'amanda' - we used to have a staff member called Amanda who existed | prior to an AMANDA installation and things got ... messy.
I can imagine. | On a Debian system, the backup user is a member of the appropriate | system groups to allow backups to function, i.e. a member of 'disk' | | For what it's worth, on a Debian Stable system, I've found that the | AMANDA packages Just Work very nicely, especially on the clients, since | there is basically no configuration required. Wouldn't I need to at least tell it where the backup server is? | Feel free to ask further related questions, because I've been using | AMANDA on Debian systems for many years... I'm also trying to document the steps. This server may not actually be used, but rather, someone with less experience than I (which is not very much with either Amanda or Debian) may be re-installing everything by my instructions. Amanda is very flexible, so I don't know how specific I can be if they change things. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ | | (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
