Thanks for you suggest. Can I use amanda 2.4.2p2-7 that equip with Red Hat
7.3
Thanks,
Theewara

----- Original Message -----
From: "BRINER Cedric" <work AT infomaniak DOT ch>
To: "Theewara Vorakosit" <thvo AT ksc.th DOT com>
Cc: "_amanda" <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: Can I use amanda without tape backup?


> 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
>
>