I've been reading the documentation on amanda.org, and it seems the
authors have this terminology flipped. Servers always passively
*listen* for a connection, while clients are active initiators. In
the Amanda model, the centralized backup host is actually a *client*,
because it's the active "con
I started reading the "Setup the Backup Client Hosts" section of the
Amanda docs, which immediately assumes that I have a folder
"~dumpuser/". It's telling me to create an ".amandahosts" file within
that directory. Portage did not create any such user. Is this a user
that I need in addition to t
of them looks like:
DISK planner linuxbox /home/mindfuq/.emacs
START planner date 20051130
WARNING planner tapecycle (1) <= runspercycle (1)
INFO planner Adding new disk linuxbox:/home/mindfuq/.emacs.
START driver date 20051130
STATS driver startup time 0.081
START taper da
* Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-27 19:08]:
>
> Did the "mailto" target get a report from amdump?
Probably not.. I'm not running a local mail server, and it was set to
send to a local user "amanda". There aren't even any local tools for
sending mail. Do I have to install mail faciliti
I created a configuration in a folder named "sandbox", which should
simply backup my .emacs file in my user area.
Running "amdump sandbox" runs for a minute or so, then returns to the
prompt with no output messages. /media/amandatapes/data contains some
files such as:
0-SandBox1
0.Sa
* Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-26 11:36]:
>
> However, here, I can as root, do an su amanda and become amanda to
> the whois command, so there may be something else at work as I do
> not have to supply the amanda passwd to become amanda from root.
I installed amanda from gentoo 2005
I have an amanda user account. I don't know what password the portage
install used for it, so I stomped on it using the passwd command. No
doing an:
su amanda
appears to work (there is no login error), but when I do a whoami, it
reports root, or whatever user I logged in from. Running amchec
* Clive Galway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-15 22:09]:
>
> Why is it that all linux documentation seems to be like this ? I
> know catering to the lowest common denominator sucks, but at least
> catering for the user with medium experience would be nice.
>
> 100+ man-hours and counting to set up
