On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:50:55PM -0800, Nina Pham wrote:
> Please let me setup the scenerio first for 2 unix machines. The amanda 
> server machine(amserver) is running redhat linux 9, the amanda 
> client(amclient) machine is running FC2. In addition to serve the client 
> machine, amserver also backups some files locally. The amserver is 
> already setup to backup itself. I'm installing amanda on amclient now. 
> This is my first time to set up amanda, so it's confusing how the client 
> and server coordinates so that the server will backup itseft and also 
> backup files from amclient.
> From amclient: I do ./configure --with-user=general --with-group=disk 
> --with-amandahosts --with-configdir=/Backup/Configs 
> --with-config=WeeklySet --with-index-server=amserver 
> --with-tape-server=amserver --prefix=/Backup/usr 
> --with-gnutar-listdir=/Backup/amanda/gnutar-listdir.
> 
> Did I get it right?

  (-: if that is what you were trying to do :-)

If you haven't already done it, you may wish to look at configure's
help output.  Most of the options are explained - some well, some
maybe more cryptically than you would like.

Also, I like the "how-to install" document fromt the source tree
"docs" directory.


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