On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 at 5:49pm, Les Mikesell wrote > Amanda uses dump or tar for the backups and adds one extra block > as a header to each backup. You can strip off the header with > dd and restore with dump or tar alone. It was a nice system > 15 years ago but hasn't had a lot of development since. It > has one big flaw in that it can't split a single filesytem > backup across more than one tape even though it can do many > hosts/filesystems in one run splitting different backups within > the run over different tapes. With todays big disks that's probably > fatal. I hardly consider it fatal. I backup 5.5TB of space (4 FSs) to an AIT3 changer without a problem. Also, tape spanning is included in the 2.5 branch, which is officially in beta now. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University