Greetings,
I have a USB external 2TB HDD with one NTFS partition which is to be used for backup up from about 5-8 workstations (all Win*) all are shut down when the office is closed
I am playing around with Amanda server on Centos 5.7.
(It is over 3 years since I last implemented Amanda for about 50 workstations mostly Fedora and couple of XP boxes -- it sang and danced quite nicely.)
Now the issue I have is: 1. I want the External HDD to appear at another mountpoint than the /media/<HDDLabel> persistantly on the centos box.. 2. How do I ensure that amanda starts and completes its backup say between 0800hrs and 1900hrs. (/ducks -- I _know_ it is amanda related, I am crosing my fingers here) 3. Is Amanda really a good choice or an overkill in this scenario, given that this is a small s/w development shop where linux expertise is *not* available? 4. Is there an alternate simpler automatic network backup? (Bacula too seems overkill) 5. Amanda is in its 3.x avatar ("The most recent stable release is version 3.3.0"). Whereas Centos 5.x yum install yeilded (I dont know from where) amanda-server-2.5.0p2-8.el5 which -- as is usually expected -- a bit dated 6. The Windows client is 3.1.3. Will the ancient server and shining new client play nicely? 7. Is there a howto using rsync/rdiff given that Windows Scheduler is not exactly like our trusty, mature cron.
The centos wiki on this matter is, well, a tad old.
Surely the Centos server, which I introduced, in this shop is going to stay and will not go away.
Of course RDIFF and other things are valid provided I have another Centos box.
Any answers appreciated.
TIA