On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 03:58:11PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:01:10AM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
> 
> | On a Debian system, the backup user is a member of the appropriate
> | system groups to allow backups to function, i.e. a member of 'disk'
> | 
> | For what it's worth, on a Debian Stable system, I've found that the
> | AMANDA packages Just Work very nicely, especially on the clients, since
> | there is basically no configuration required.
> 
> Wouldn't I need to at least tell it where the backup server is?
> 

The server initiates the backup session, so the client does
not need server knowledge for this.

For recovery a default server is compiled in, but that can
be overridden with command line arguments.

The system I'm typing this on was my backup server, and of
course a client of itself.  I have now moved the amanda service
to a different computer.  When I did, I made no changes to
the current system.  It is just responds as a client when the
new server contacts it.

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