On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 09:41, Theewara Vorakosit wrote:
> Dear All,
>     I have 2 machines running Red Hat 7.3. I want to back up content
of these machines into an other machines periodically. I plan to use
amanda
but I don't have tape drive. Can I use amanda to backup into a hard
disk? 
If you can't use amanda, would you please suggest me about backup
software.
> Thanks,
> Theewara

I've made it work...on sun solaris  !
for this you have to create a folder which will be like the tape device.

You have to use amanda-2.4.3b3  b mean BETA
and in the amanda.conf file
for the entry:
tapedev "file:/unige/amanda/bckp/"

I didn't really look deep in amanda source code...but I feel that the
developer guys have made like a wrapper around amanda to make a
repertory behave like a tape.

so In my case the repertory looks like;

atalante:bckp 171> ls -l
total 28
lrwxrwxrwx   1 obs_bkp  sys 6 Aug 16 14:45 data -> sb06_1/
-rw-------   1 obs_bkp  sys           11 Aug 16 15:20 info
lrwxrwxrwx   1 obs_bkp  sys           27 Aug 12 14:41 sb01_1 ->
/net/obssb1/export/diskB1/1/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 obs_bkp  sys           27 Aug 12 14:41 sb01_2 ->
/net/obssb1/export/diskB1/2/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 obs_bkp  sys           27 Aug 12 14:09 sb02_1 ->
/net/obssb2/export/diskB1/1/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 obs_bkp  sys           27 Aug 12 14:42 sb02_2 ->
/net/obssb2/export/diskB1/2/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 obs_bkp  sys           27 Aug 16 00:43 sb03_1 ->
/net/obssb3/export/diskB1/1/

in this folder the only thing that you really have to create is the data
link who has to point a folder on a disk with enough space to keep the
backup.

The file info is created/used by amanda --> so don't pay attention to it

and the other link like sb1_1 sb_1 are linked to HD's spread around the
LAN 'cause at each run we backup about 40 Gb.

an that's it