On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > >> 'Deploying' amanda is a matter of installing the rpm and editing a >> couple of config files about the tape drive, tapes, targets, and >> holding space. And maybe some firewall tweaking - but nothing really >> complicated. You get a lot of coverage of 'real-world' problems >> already built in that will be hard to match in a new program, but you >> do have to think the way it does... >> > > > Well then I guess thinking the way it does is what I was having issues > with. > I did have trouble wrapping my head around it. And after a fair bit of > googling (and if I'm not mistaken asking on this list) I really could find > no examples of a configuration as simple as the one I was looking for. I always thought that was why it had a woman's name. You are better off just letting her do things her own way. It really does do a good job of automating and tracking everything and is exceptionally good at the case where you have one tape a day and you want to get at least an incremental of every machine every night and a full at least within the cycle where you start re-using tapes but preferably more often if there is space. It is probably adaptable to other scenarios but it may not fit yours very well. Once it is set up, all you have to do is swap the tape sometime during the day. It takes so little attention I let my setup run even after setting up backuppc until our last tape drive died. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com