[macosx-unix] amanda backup

[Jan Schaumann]

Isaac Levy <ike at lesmuug.org> wrote:
 
> On Mar 5, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Jan Schaumann wrote:

> >Yupp, that's what I need.  I'd prefer to find a solution and not Yet
> >Another Gruesome Hack To Make OS X Do What I Need. :)
> 
> Uh-oh- what kind of gruesome hacks? :)

Oh, nothing in particular.  I've just been frustrated with a number of
issues since I've found myself responsible for a lab of those Mac OS X
things.  In particular, commercial applications seem to always assume
that the person wanting to run the app is necessarily an administrator
and can write to, say, /Library/Preferences or /Application/<appname> or
whatever.  I've been ktracing through almost all big add-on
applications.

OS X really does not play all that well in a heterogenous multi-user
network.  As somebody else said, Apple makes things really easy, as long
as they anticipate what you may want to do.  The things they did not
anticipate you might want to do are often incredibly cumbersome, if not
impossible.

> Off topic, is there some feature/working reason that Amanda actually  
> saves you time, or helps you backup systems in your enviornment?   
> i.e. is it a scale thing, lots of machines?  Just curious-

Well, we currently back up about 1.3 TB from three NetBSD servers, a
Linux and an IRIX server via amanda to a NetBSD backup host.  Adding the
200 GB (at the moment) from the Mac OS X server would not be a problem
as far as the tape library is concerned, so I was hoping for a simple
``install amanda on OS X, add host/disk to config, done'' solution.

So far I've gotten to ``install amanda on OS X, add host/disk to
config''.  The ``done'' part is what usually proves to be the tricky
one.

-Jan

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