On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:01:10AM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
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| On Friday, 08.09.2006 at 01:28 -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
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| > These packages configure the user to run Amanda as "backup". But it
| > seems the "backup" user also does other things. Does anyone see any
| > possible conflict in this?
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| I'd say "may be used for other things", rather than "also does other
| things", really.
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| To be honest, a user called backup makes more sense than a user called
| 'amanda' - we used to have a staff member called Amanda who existed
| prior to an AMANDA installation and things got ... messy.
I can imagine.
| On a Debian system, the backup user is a member of the appropriate
| system groups to allow backups to function, i.e. a member of 'disk'
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| For what it's worth, on a Debian Stable system, I've found that the
| AMANDA packages Just Work very nicely, especially on the clients, since
| there is basically no configuration required.
Wouldn't I need to at least tell it where the backup server is?
| Feel free to ask further related questions, because I've been using
| AMANDA on Debian systems for many years...
I'm also trying to document the steps. This server may not actually be
used, but rather, someone with less experience than I (which is not very
much with either Amanda or Debian) may be re-installing everything by my
instructions. Amanda is very flexible, so I don't know how specific I
can be if they change things.
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