On Thursday, 29.04.2004 at 15:11 +0100, Gavin Henry wrote: > >We have a Debian box which mounts our Netware server's disks as ncpfs > >filesystems - and we add these mount points to the AMANDA disklist. > > This is what I had in mind. We have 6 Windows servers; AD, SQL, > Citrix/E-mail/Exchange and 3 other windows 98 call logger machines and > one last one for the PABX. 1 Netware 4 box. 1 AIX 4.0. > > I could get an old box, not sure what spec, install Fedora on it (my > choice) and hang the HP Ultrium multitape drive off it and back them > all up.
Basically, there should be no problem doing that. An AMANDA server doesn't really need to be anything special - a faster machine should give you faster throughput to the tapes, of course, until you reach the limit of the drives. Also, get a LARGE holding disk - or possibly more than one. If you are planning to backup up to 200GB, you will benefit from having at least that much as holding disk, ideally many times that space. A couple of cheap IDE disks would be best. > The tapes are 200GB each. I could use the novelclient to log > as admin and then mess with the AIX one too. I take it the windows > boxes would be via their shares? How would samba be configured for > this? You backup via Samba yes - haven't personally had to do this ("If it's on your Windows PC it doesn't get backed up." is my policy) so I'll let someone else answer that. > >If you have any more questions, knowing a bit more about what you have > >in mind would be helpful. > > I am not the admin here, but he is really struggling with Back falling > all the time. > > > Hardware: > HP Ultrium 1 LTO StorageWorks 1/8 autoloader with C7971A 200GB Tapes Don't know this tape drive, but if it is supported by your chosen operating system and by AMANDA, then that won't be a problem. > Current Software: > BrightStor ARCServe backup Version 9 (Build 2020) Out of interest, why is your existing backup software insufficient for your purposes? Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Epidemiology Unit, Oxford Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370