Hi

Are there any slack packages for amanda ? I looked for it on
www.linuxpackages.net but could not find any.

Second question :

I have a USB hard disk that I intend to use as a backup solution. How do I
trick amanda into storing its backup on that disk keeping tab on different
generations of backup just as if it were writing to a tape drive ? And if
someone has this working, are there any pitfalls to such emulation ?

Thanks.

On 2004-09-24, Madhusudan Singh <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> wrote:
> Are there any slack packages for amanda?

No. Get the sources and compile it.

> I have a USB hard disk that I intend to use as a backup solution.

That's not a backup, that's a COPY. There was a very long thread about
backup solutions on alt.comp.os.hardware, I suggest you go and read it.

Davide

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Davide Bianchi wrote:

> On 2004-09-24, Madhusudan Singh <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> wrote:
>> Are there any slack packages for amanda?
>
> No. Get the sources and compile it.
>

Ok.

>> I have a USB hard disk that I intend to use as a backup solution.
>
> That's not a backup, that's a COPY. There was a very long thread about
> backup solutions on alt.comp.os.hardware, I suggest you go and read it.

My newsserver (news.individual.net) has no such NG. Which newsserver are you
using ?

"Madhusudan Singh"
> Davide Bianchi wrote:
>
> > On 2004-09-24, Madhusudan Singh <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> wrote:
> >> Are there any slack packages for amanda?
> >
> > No. Get the sources and compile it.
> >
>
> Ok.
>
> >> I have a USB hard disk that I intend to use as a backup solution.
> >
> > That's not a backup, that's a COPY. There was a very long thread about
> > backup solutions on alt.comp.os.hardware, I suggest you go and read it.
>
> My newsserver (news.individual.net) has no such NG. Which newsserver are
you
> using ?

The might google dugests that it may have been a typo, the group is probably
comp.os. linux.hardware
And the thread is probably
"Need backup hardware suggestions"

Tim

Davide Bianchi <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote in message news:<slrncl7akh.1tb.davideyeahsure@fogg.onlyforfu n.net>...
> On 2004-09-24, Madhusudan Singh <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> wrote:
> > Are there any slack packages for amanda?
>
> No. Get the sources and compile it.
>

No? Then how come I have one?


> > I have a USB hard disk that I intend to use as a backup solution.
>
> That's not a backup, that's a COPY. There was a very long thread about
> backup solutions on alt.comp.os.hardware, I suggest you go and read it.
>

Amanda _is_ a backup solution, arguably the best one.

You're saying that creating a backup and storing it on a usb harddisk
isn't creating a backup, it's creating a copy? Can you get any
nitpickier than that?