For doing the backup with samba, three machine are involved:
- the amanda server, who contacts the amanda client
- the amanda client, who runs smbclient, which contacts the SMB share
- the machine that needs the backup, running
CIFS/samba/native-Windows-share-stuff
Many people configure their setup for this with client and server
the same machine; but it must not be like that, e.g. to offload
the load client software compression to another host.
In the disklist you have:
name-of-amanda-client //pcname/sharename dymptype-with-samba
Note that the backups you are making are actually coming from the host
"pcname"; the amanda-client is just a passthrough.
Nothing prevents you using the hostname of the server itself
in the "name-of-amanda-client".
Is that what you were looking for?
On 2010-02-01 16:51, Corey Jones wrote:
Hello All,
I'm trying to backup two Barracuda Message Archiver 450 via CIFS/Samba
and I was wondering if anyone have or know of any resource/examples of
this type of setup. The main problem is (I think) the /etc/amandapass
file is read from the amanda client only. I need to add the
username:password/WORKGROUP information to the server side of amanda; to
connect to the Barracuda CIFS/SAMBA service running on the appliance
So, basically... I want the Amanda server to connect to the CIFS/Samba
server running on the Barracuda and have the Amanda server pass the
username:password/WORKGROUP to the Barracuda and successfully backup the
message archive.
Thanks in advance,
Corey
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