On Friday 12 September 2014 09:38:11 Brian Cuttler did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 05:29:08PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 11 September 2014 13:19:14 Debra S Baddorf did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > I agree. I always build amanda myself. [ My package seems okay > > > when I have ROOT build it and install it …. I don’t think I’ve > > > changed anything to allow that to work. Hmm. I do remember > > > reading that my amanda user (operator for me) was supposed to > > > build it. ] > > > > > > A comment about the configure settings: > > > > ./configure --with-user=amanda \ > > > > > > > > --with-group=disk \ > > > > --with-owner=amanda \ > > > > --with-gnu-ld \ > > > > --prefix=/usr/local/ \ > > > > --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ > > > > --with-tape-server=coyote \ > > > > --with-bsdtcp-security --with-amandahosts \ > > > > --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda \ > > > > --with-gnutar=/usr/bin/tar > > > > > > Since I have clients of several ages and varying amanda versions … > > > I’ve discovered that you can have all three of the security types > > > > > > enabled and used by differing clients: > > > --with-bsd-security \ > > > --with-krb5-security \ > > > --with-bsdtcp-security \ is default so I guess I don’t > > > explicitly > > > > > > add that line, but it’s a good idea to do so > > > > I was not aware of that, but then my system is a pretty small model > > compared to many on this list. I would not be surprised to find that > > Brian C. has in excess of 50 spindles scattered over nearly that many > > clients, as do you at Fermi. Fortunately, amanda scales exceedingly > > well. > > Really very well. I have a system that has only itself as a client > and has 288 DLEs and backups over 1Tbyte plus per night. Another system > has only 113 DLE but spread across 34 clients. I have 4-5 TBytes backed > up on VTapes and I have other systems that backup relatively little > data across only about a half dozen machines. > > Amanda scales very well. And the client/server we have are a > combinations are a result of historical, practical and political, > rather than an issue of amanda's scalability. > > The only issue I have with amanda scaling is the machine with 288 DLE > has a file handle limitation, which I think is an OS issue that I > should be able to (but have not) work around. And despite the error, > amanda runs and backups up all of the DLEs properly, so it works > around the OS issue for me. > > Brian > And another testimonial.
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > --- > Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org > Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 > Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 > NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS
