Thanks for the info.
Looks like time to go get Amanda 2.4.3
>> On Fri, 17 May 2002 at 12:20pm, Greg Freemyer wrote
>> > It sounded as if it was targeting a collection of Linux servers being
>> > backed up to a single tape drive.
>> Actually the design is for one or more *nix boxes (and Win boxes via
>> samba) backing up to a single tape drive. Many people do use it for a
>> single server, however.
>> > I'm just backing up one server to local large disk drive. (This is
>> > just what the sample script does as well. :) )
>> Version 2.4.3 of amanda (currently in beta3) does this by design, using
>> files on disk as if they were tapes. Previous versions could do it by
>> just specifying a non-existent device as the tape drive, and letting
>> backups stay on the holding disk.
>> > Does using Amanda in this type of an environment simplify life, or make
>> > it worse.
>> Amanda is *very* nice. It does almost all the management, so you don't
>> have to. But...
>> > In particular, I want to come up with a end-user friendly restore
>> mechanism.
>> amrecover (the command line file recovery utility) is very friendly. Tell
>>
>> it the date, and it will list the files that existed on that day. So you
>> can even recover multiple versions of the same file, depending upon date.
>> > My plan is to keep the last 30 days of backups online and I would like
>> > to give end-users the ability to restore their own files. Hopefully via
>>
>> > a http interface.
>> Well, amrecover does want to be run as root. sudo could take care of
>> that, but then you have issues with users having access to the files of
>> others. And I don't know of any http front end, so this may be an issue.
>> --
>> Joshua Baker-LePain
>> Department of Biomedical Engineering
>> Duke University
Greg Freemyer
Internet Engineer
Deployment and Integration Specialist
Compaq ASE - Tru64
Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect
The Norcross Group
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