On Monday 30 June 2003 09:59, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
>I've been using Arkeia for a while but recently my license has
> expired and I'd like to try using Amanda.
>
>I'd like to backup all of localhost to a second hard drive in the
> server. Can Amanda do this?  I was looking for some quick start
> like documentation to get me going but didn't see anything really
> in terms of just getting a simple backup going with a local disk. 
> Any pointers to docs would be appreciated.
>

You can do this, yes, using the FILE: device type ISTR.

There is a learning curve to amanda, and the first thing to learn is 
that as far as amanda is concerned, because localhost means the 
machine it running on, its a bit too universal and it will at some 
point, bite you hard.   Also, even when backing up its own machine, 
amanda uses a client-server framework, so it must be able to access 
the server by its FQDN.

So the first thing you lose is the localhost, use the machines FQDN 
instead.

There is a FAQ, and there was a pretty good set of docs on 
frankenlinux.com, but somebody said they were down a few days back, 
so hopefully someone will have made a mirror and can post the URL.

>Thanks
>-jeremy

-- 
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz  512M
99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message
by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.