Its interesting that they don't configure it to use gnu tar... and so far as I can tell, none of the config that they give would use gnutar to backup Solaris boxes.
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:02, Galen Johnson wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >Recently posted to the "Big Admin" > >section of Sun's website is a pretty > >long article on setting up amanda. > > > >Haven't read it yet, so I'm unable > >to comment on its content. > > > >http://enews.sun.com/CTServlet?id=47250049-814460813:1068762499806 > > > > or > > > >http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/backups_amanda.html > > Not a bad article...very straight-forward. It even walks you through > creating a package for Solaris. The only thing I might have recommended > different would've been to split out the tapetype, dumptypes and > interfaces into separate files and 'include'd them in the main config > file rather than keeping a monolithic conf file. That would make for > cleaner config files since the info you would tend to reuse between > configs would be in a central location...plus it would allow you to > update the files once instead of however many config files you had...but > that's just me... > > gonna add this link to my Amanda links. > > =G=