Disk Backup With Amanda On Debian Lenny | Linux Today

Disk Backup With Amanda On Debian Lenny

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 17, 2010

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“1. Introduction: Amanda is an open source client/server
solution to back up filesystems. Backups are triggered by the
backup server, backup definitions are located on the servers but
exclusion lists are located on the client.

“2. Landscape: bckserver.mydomain.com (Debian lenny): The backup
server that hosts amanda server.
“bckclient.mydomain.com (Debian lenny): The backup client is a web
server with a MySQL database (no replication).
“An ISCSI SAN as a library. backup to virtual tapes (disks)”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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