On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 09:41, Theewara Vorakosit wrote: > Dear All, > I have 2 machines running Red Hat 7.3. I want to back up content of these machines into an other machines periodically. I plan to use amanda but I don't have tape drive. Can I use amanda to backup into a hard disk? If you can't use amanda, would you please suggest me about backup software. > Thanks, > Theewara
I've made it work...on sun solaris ! for this you have to create a folder which will be like the tape device. You have to use amanda-2.4.3b3 b mean BETA and in the amanda.conf file for the entry: tapedev "file:/unige/amanda/bckp/" I didn't really look deep in amanda source code...but I feel that the developer guys have made like a wrapper around amanda to make a repertory behave like a tape. so In my case the repertory looks like; atalante:bckp 171> ls -l total 28 lrwxrwxrwx 1 obs_bkp sys 6 Aug 16 14:45 data -> sb06_1/ -rw------- 1 obs_bkp sys 11 Aug 16 15:20 info lrwxrwxrwx 1 obs_bkp sys 27 Aug 12 14:41 sb01_1 -> /net/obssb1/export/diskB1/1/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 obs_bkp sys 27 Aug 12 14:41 sb01_2 -> /net/obssb1/export/diskB1/2/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 obs_bkp sys 27 Aug 12 14:09 sb02_1 -> /net/obssb2/export/diskB1/1/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 obs_bkp sys 27 Aug 12 14:42 sb02_2 -> /net/obssb2/export/diskB1/2/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 obs_bkp sys 27 Aug 16 00:43 sb03_1 -> /net/obssb3/export/diskB1/1/ in this folder the only thing that you really have to create is the data link who has to point a folder on a disk with enough space to keep the backup. The file info is created/used by amanda --> so don't pay attention to it and the other link like sb1_1 sb_1 are linked to HD's spread around the LAN 'cause at each run we backup about 40 Gb. an that's it