mitchbnj_removethis AT excite DOT com wrote:

Q on amt of time to implement amanda?!

After chatting with my manager, I have to ask the list a bunch of painfully obvious questions:

1) How long should it take someone to get amanda up and running. (5 minutes, 5 days, 5 weeks?)

2) How much of what is required by amanda, compared to buying a commercial product? i.e., is much of the configuration work that I've done in Amanada "magically" done by commercial programs?

3) have any of you (I hope, please help me...) configured any competing commercial products, and is it simpler?/Faster?

4) Is it just me who needs my head examined?

5) does it sound to you (too) that I need to find another job?

My boss (after thinking this has been painless *) has complained that I told her it would take a week to get the system up and running with backups. Of course the guy who was doing backups before (he gave them to me to do last week) was taking 4 hrs every friday afternoon to copy files to his pc and cut 4 CDROMS. but he had PHYSICAL media, which she likes. **

So I gave the following schedule to my boss, which she grudgingly accepted: Monday:, perform direct hardware backups to tape, restore, test copied ok both ways. Tuesday: install, compile software, get installed software correctly running on server,

test backup of server

Wednesday:, install client software (on another server), test backup from server. Thursday: adjust # tapes, scheduling information. Add more clients Friday :installing SAMBA on server, setting up drive share so that it's accessible to tape system for backups.

SO: (I thought I padded this schedule enough to get me done and completed with plenty of time, but NO...

Another question: was this NOT a adaquate time estimate?

so first thing: On monday, tests went fine, started to install a few of the following packages:

package ` version
gnuawk 3.10
gccCompiler 3.3
gnuplot 3.71
make 3.80
mtx 1.2.17
ncurses 5.3.
perl 5.8.0
popt 1.7
readline 4.3
samba 2.2.8a
tar 1.13
and of course
amanda 2.4.4p1

**Mistake** I took Tuesday off, but wasn't reflected in schedule. time to shoot myself.

yes

Wed Morning, finish installing other packages, installed amanda.
HA. (See other message about 2.4.4.P1 AND the version.info function.)

Thursday, got programmer to help me compile amanda 2.4.4.p1 ok finally.

started to edit all amanda config files.

Friday: started amtapetype, did amcheck., fixing problems.
still no "formal" backup yet.

*Painless (HA!: remember? (LVD vs HVD scsi (6 days to resolve/discover already had hardware), and other personal faux pases? I do. ** and after getting the task, I took about 6 hrs, automated it to run daily, and SSH/SCP'd the files to a unused machine. Thereby getting DAILY backups.. BUT ... she doesnt see media, so doesnt like that

--
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic Ltd
+44 (0)1865 842300




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