On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:38:06PM -0500, Chris Barnes wrote:
> Assume for example, if I have a computer named "earth" with a 100gb data
> disk that holds the /home directory (that's the only directory on that
> filesystem), and another computer named "moon" that has 300gb of
> diskspace to use as backup space (both computers are running RH Linux w/
> Samba installed).
> 
> Does "earth" nfs mount the large disk on "moon" and simply write to it?

If you do that with vanilla NFS, I suspect the backup will crawl!

I'd simply make "moon" the Amanda server, and "earth" a client.
That way, the
      tapedev  "file:/some/directory/somewhere"
will be referring to a local file, and your question will no
longer apply.

> I assume that this will run on earth as root so that it can have
> permissions to get to all the files, right?

The Amanda *client* will, yes.  But it's the server that cares
about tapedev.

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