On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:39:10PM +0000, Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have been tasked at making sure we have a valid backup of a box that i 
> know nothing about! Its in a corner of one of our IDC's, has been up for 
> about 3 years and no-one knows anything about it.
> 
> uname -a gives me
> 
> dgux <hostname> R4.20MU07 generic AViiON PentiumPro
> 
> does anyone know what i am dealing with here or have any clue as to 
> weather amanda will be able to make me a backup of it?
> 

DGUX, Data General's version of UNIX.
As I recall, some of the AViiON's were pretty slick appearance,
kinda futuristic.

Can't be real critical,
hopefully you won't need to do a full-metal restore :)

It likely has NFS server software.  I'd think the simplest approach
with amanda would be to back it up as an "indirect client", i.e. one
that mounts its files to be backed up on an amanda client that is
being backed up directly.  Then your DGUX directories will just
appear as directories on the actual amanda client.  Check the backups
carefully to ensure you are getting copies of everything you want.

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