On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Ivan Petrovich wrote:
> > Alternatively, you can back up the files on the NFS server instead of on the
> > client.
> 
> I am not udnerstanding this.
> 
> I have host A with files that I want to back up.
> I have host B which runs the amanda server as well as amanda client.
> Host A is HPUX machine and I couldn't get the Amanda HP client to
> compile, but host B is GNU/Linux and is happily running an Amanda
> client.
> So I export files from host A (the NFS server) and mount them on host
> B (the NFS client), and run amdump on host B (the Amanda client) to
> back up to host B (the Amanda server).
> 
> So how is it that I can do it differently?

By backing them up on machine A (HP-UX). But apparently you've already tried
that...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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