Author: David Newman <dnewman AT networktest DOT com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:25:12 -0800 (PST)
Greetings. I have installed Amanda on two FreeBSD 5.2.1 boxes, Host A and Host B. Host A is the Amanda server, and has the amanda-server package installed from ports. Host B has the amanda-client pac
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:44:19 -0500
Are there any logs being generated on host B from amanda's activities? You may have to change the operator to a user with a valid home dir. I've always, from day one, had a user amanda, who was a mem
Author: David Newman <dnewman AT networktest DOT com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:19:30 -0800 (PST)
On Thursday 06 January 2005 21:25, David Newman wrote: Greetings. I have installed Amanda on two FreeBSD 5.2.1 boxes, Host A and Host B. Host A is the Amanda server, and has the amanda-server packag
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:14:17 -0500
Unforch, I'm not familiar with the 'ports' of BSD. However, all this is normally specified when the configuration script is run from a tarball install. Here is mine: -- if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; t
Author: David Newman <dnewman AT networktest DOT com>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:09:20 -0800
Sorry, spoke too soon. The new configuration with amanda users passed amcheck but attempts to dump the client machine ("Host B" from my first email) still result in the "all estimate failed" error. I
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 00:58:28 -0500
dump can only backup entire filesystems. If /dir1 is just a directory, then you must use gnutar. As above, dump works only on whole filesystems from the mountpoint, tar can reach into subdirs and do
I'm new to amanda but I've been administering UNIX servers for a while. Dump is for dumping whole filesystems not directories. Tar is more versatile. I believe in the amanda.conf you can specify DUMP
Author: David Newman <dnewman AT networktest DOT com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:45:38 -0800 (PST)
I'm new to amanda but I've been administering UNIX servers for a while. Dump is for dumping whole filesystems not directories. Tar is more versatile. I believe in the amanda.conf you can specify DUMP