On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:26:07PM -0800, Nina Pham wrote:
> Mike Delaney wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:38:36PM -0800, Nina Pham wrote:
> >
> >>I mount using smbmount
> >>
> >
> >Don't do that then.  Install Amanda on all of the systems that need to
> >be backed up, and let it work the way it was designed.
> >
> 
> The files we are backing up are resigned on more than 1 servers, and we 
> want to store that archive on the same place. Therefore we need to mount.

No, you do not.  The whole point of Amanda is to backup files on multiple
systems across a network to a single place.  No network filesystem mounts
are required.

The server contacts the clients, which backup their files and send the
archives back to the server which writes them to tape.