On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 11:11, Alkis Evlogimenos wrote: > Does Amanda support backing up on the same machine on a different mount?
I'm not sure what "the same machine on a different mount" means. Amanda is a client-server system. The machine running the server (doing the backup) also runs the client and is backed up by the server connecting to the client as localhost. AFAIK it will backup anything you ask it to. I think the minimum granularity is an entire directory, but I've never tried to backup a single file, so I could be wrong. > When > I was reading about backup applications amanda seemed like an overkill. It certainly may be -- there's lots of 'stuff' going on. But if I were going to back up just one machine, I think it's what I'd use. Once it's set up, Amanda keeps track of everything and writes the backups with dump or GNU tar so you can restore even if Amanda isn't around. > Also my network is wireless so backing up over it is not an option :-) Depends on how much trouble you want to go to. Much more authoritative info is at http://www.amanda.org and in the O'Reilly book: Unix Backup & Recovery. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
