No manual just a wiki and FAQ. The best way to learn is read the section on basic configuration then the section "under the hood" which tells you what the config is doing.
Many of your questions about how to do the things you want with Amanda seem to be under some misunderstanding on what Amanda is supposed to do. Forgive me but it seems you are trying to dumb down Amanda to a single vtape on a NAS without a holding drive now. You can do this but it removes all the value that comes with Amanda. You might as well just tar to a file on a NAS NFS mount. It'll be a lot simpler and there's nothing wrong with that if you don't need volume management. On January 5, 2018 2:23:49 PM EST, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Jean-Louis, > >| runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump > >| Because you tell it to use one tape. >As advertised, Amanda behaviors that I don't yet understand... > >So, I suspect that vtape behavior is a big piece of Amanda and from >this low point on the learning curve, it looks formidable. Is there >some document that describes it sufficiently that I don't have to make >a lot of mistakes and ask a lot of stupid questions? > >So, having been so helpful with that question, I have two more: > >1. If I am backing up a client to a NAS appliance, then I don't see how >it makes sense to have a holding disk, so I think I want to configure >that out. Am I right? >2. How to I specify that I am backing up to a NAS and not >"file://var/amanda/vtapes/..."? > >If anybody know were this stuff is discussed in a manual, then telling >me where it is would be helpful. > >Thanks for the help, >-- >Chris. > >V:916.974.0424 >F:916.974.0428 -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
