FC 2/3 Backup

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 09:44 +0100, Nigel Wade wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 12:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > 
> >>On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 10:54, Tim Holmes wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Charles -- I am more than willing to try anything at this point,
> >>>however, I am new to linux, and so I will need a little guidance getting
> >>>through the process that you described (having cron tarbal the files and
> >>>move them) -- it sounds like a valid plan, I am just gonna need some
> >>>help getting it done.  
> >>>
> >>>As far as Amanda -- I have seen it when doing installs, but I know
> >>>nothing about it,  is it a backup server or a remote client,  any other
> >>>info would be appreciated
> >>
> >>Amanda generally wants to write directly to a tape drive on the machine
> >>running the server.  If you are interested in an on-line disk based
> >>solution, look at backuppc:  http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > ----
> > Amanada has both a client and server application. Thus on the computer
> > that has the tape drive, it would need both. Any other system would only
> > need the client. Apparently there is a version in CVS that backs up to
> > filesystem and judging by my experience with Amanda, they are likely to
> > do a very good job at that. I don't believe that the version distributed
> > with Fedora 3 will do that though.
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> 
> I'm running amanda 2.4.4p2 on FC2 and it backs up to disk just fine. It's 
> backing up RH9, FC1 and FC2 clients. It supports virtual tapes on disk, but 
> requires a fair amount of manual configuration for the "tape changer".
> 
> It's a hairy-scary backup solution if you are used to a "real" backup 
> system, though. It has it's idiosyncracies, but once you get it setup you 
> can leave it to get on with it. I've not touched the setup in the past 6 
> months, it just silently backs-up the clients every night to a 250GB USB 
> drive. I wouldn't want to have to re-build a system from bare-metal using an 
> Amanda backup though.
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I wouldn't want to have to re-build a system from bare-metal using any
backup program  ;-)

thanks for the feedback on amanada-2.4.4p2

amanda is difficult to set up but once it's running, it's the best I
have ever seen.

Craig