--On Friday, December 09, 2011 11:48:49 AM -0600 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Errr, what? Amanda is a little cumbersome to set up, but it doesn't > bite. If gnutar works, amanda should work or tell you why. As I said, it's been at least 8 years since I dealt with Amanda. Going by memory, though, in the case of Amanda, it wasn't flakiness but rather limitations. At the time Amanda had the limitation that the backup of a filesystem could not span tapes. This was a critical issue in that I had filesystems larger than the largest tapes available. In the case where filesystem sizes approached the size of a tape, it wasted a lot of tape space (which wasn't cheap). I'm willing to believe that they've fixed that limitation, but if so I'd already moved on. Arkeia, though, was definitely one of the flakey ones (IIRC I lost three months' worth of backups, which was caught by a scheduled validation process ... luckily it was only history and not current data that was gone.) Devin