----- Original Message -----
From: "John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ryan Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Shawn M. Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: Amanda Client on FreeBSD
Like I said not an expert, the first 4 times reading the book were just to
understand the concept :). (dumpcycles, tapecycles) and the 5th time I
installed it.
> >First off, I just want to start this out saying that I am not an expert
at
> >this by far but I have read the chapter from backup central about 5 times
...
>
> As far as I'm concerned, that makes you an "expert" :-).
>
> >In freebsd you must add amanda to the group operators. ...
>
> That depends on whether you are using dump or GNU tar and what group
> has read access to the raw disk devices. GNU tar doesn't need special
> group membership because it runs under a setuid-root wrapper. For dump,
> you either need to put Amanda in the group that owns the devices,
> or change the group of the devices to something Amanda is a member of
> (possibly a brand new Amanda only group).
>
> >You don't use the directory's when telling it what to backup ...
>
> I prefer to use the logical (mount point) names rather than the
> disk names. I've moved data around too often in the past and prefer
> the extra level of indirection. But this is personal preference.
> Amanda can handle either. For GNU tar it will convert a disk name to
> the mount point. For dump it will convert a mount point to the disk
> (assuming, in either case, your /etc/fstab or the equivalent is correct).
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
