Its interesting that they don't configure it to use gnu tar...
and so far as I can tell, none of the config that they give
would use gnutar to backup Solaris boxes.


On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:02, Galen Johnson wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >Recently posted to the "Big Admin"
> >section of Sun's website is a pretty
> >long article on setting up amanda.
> >
> >Haven't read it yet, so I'm unable
> >to comment on its content.
> >
> >http://enews.sun.com/CTServlet?id=47250049-814460813:1068762499806
> >
> >     or
> >
> >http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/backups_amanda.html
>
> Not a bad article...very straight-forward.  It even walks you through
> creating a package for Solaris.  The only thing I might have recommended
> different would've been to split out the tapetype, dumptypes and
> interfaces into separate files and 'include'd them in the main config
> file rather than keeping a monolithic conf file.  That would make for
> cleaner config files since the info you would tend to reuse between
> configs would be in a central location...plus it would allow you to
> update the files once instead of however many config files you had...but
> that's just me...
>
> gonna add this link to my Amanda links.
>
> =G=