Verify Configuration

Introduction

• All the Verify pages are structured in a similar fashion to each other.
• End to end test page allows the user to conduct an important test in the backup set configuration process.
• End to end test does a quick test of Amanda server and client by creating a "test" backup set.
  • The test backup set contains a file in the local machine that is backed up to a local disk
  • It does complete backup, restoration and compare of the restored file contents
• This action must be used
  • when new Amanda server software is installed or software is upgraded
  • when the distribution/OS is upgraded.
• This action is not specific to a given backup set.

Procedure

• Click the "Perform Test" Button (labeled No 1 above) when ready to proceed.
• The text in upper right hand rectangle (No 2 above) will change to indicate that the Configuration Verification process has started.

• Further progress messages/ error messages will appear in rectangle 3 .

Success

• Success has the following message:

Tip:	
Success implies that it is technically feasible to backup data using the amanda installation.
Nothing is implied that this is an optimal way to organize user's  backup needs.