From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 10:18:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1D137B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:18:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88FD043E4A for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:18:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kizersoze@sbcglobal.net) Received: from adsl-65-71-68-47.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net (HELO hume) (kizersoze@sbcglobal.net@65.71.68.47 with login) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 2002 18:18:22 -0000 From: "KizerSoze" To: "Kirk R. Wythers" , Subject: RE: backups - setting up amanda Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:19:17 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <1036604170.1156.12.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I personally don't use amanda but invoke a backup script from a cron job which runs every nite on at 2 on specified directorys and tar's them to tape and then rewinds. Read the tar manpage for the specifics. For example..if you want to backup your /etc with your backup device being /dev/ast0 and rewind the tape when done you would use /dev/rast0 No rewind uses /dev/nrast0 Also read the man page on mt. You should be able to do all of this yourself without using amanda. Good Luck, Ed -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kirk R. Wythers Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:36 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: backups - setting up amanda I have a travan TR-5 tape drive that is going unused on my personal workstation (I've been backing up /home on zip250). I am interested in setting up a automated back schedule and have heard good things about Amanda. However, I am confused about how to set up Amanda. There seem to be some differences in freebsd's Amanda port and the documentation I see on amanda.org. For example rather than configure amanda manually, the Makefile seems to handle that. Also file locations seem a bit different from the directions I see on: http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html Can anyone who has set up Amanda from the ports collection provide a blow by blow of a freebsd'ish amanda setup? Thanks, -- Kirk R. Wythers email: kwythers@umn.edu University of Minnesota tel: 612.625.2261 Department of Forest Resources fax: 612.625.5212 Saint Paul, MN 55108 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message