On 5/29/05, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
> On Sunday 29 May 2005 14:50, Gentian Hila wrote:
> >It it my first time trying to use AMANDA for backup. I went ahead
> > and read the chapter on amanda from the book Backup and recovery in
> > Unix, but it seemed to me very complicated.
> >
> >I have a RedHat ES 3 system and I am using an external usb HDD to
> >backup the whole system. I want to do a full backup once a week and
> >incremental backups every other day of the week.
> >
> >I installed rpm amanda 2.4 ( Might look for 2.5 if it is as an rpm
> >outthere yet).
> >
> >I am looking for some short manual (not too complicated and with all
> >of the options) on how to configure amanda to do backups on Hard
> > drive .
> >
> >Does somebody know something like that ? Thanks a lot for the help
>
> I can probably help except it will be for a tarball built 2.4.5, and
> I've no idea how to make a usb hard drive work, mine are all on std
> ata133 controllers. I'm using a 200GB for this, and have been for
> several months.
>
> Generally speaking, the rpm versions of amanda are often built with
> some option set wrong, and you'll find that this whole group pretty
> much endorses buiding it from tarballs as that lets you set things
> according to std practice. My first, and last attempt to use the
> rpms was a disaster, but that was also 5+ years ago.
>
> If interested, reply back. To the list.
>
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Well, I thought maybe rpm would be easier, but I do not mind
installing it from a tarball. Whatever works better. Also what I
wanted to point out is that I want to backup on hard drive not in
tape. I have already mounted the hard drives.
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