[OT] Amanda (was Re: xfsdump & compression? (was: Re: xfsdump aborts after assertion failure)

["Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@RWTH-Aachen.DE>]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:51:05 +0100, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:

[...]
>Amanda (http://www.amanda.org/) is a nice tool keeping a catalogue. You
>can browse it with an FTP-like interface no matter if you used
>dump/xfsdump/ufsdump/backup/tar for backup. The index is stored in
>gzipped plain text. If you're really lost in space, you can even zgrep
>for your files.

Well, Amanda *is* nice, I also use it in the office, but what really f*cks me 
off is that Amanda obviously can't span a filesystem across multiple tapes (or 
is it just me being too stupid to properly configure it?!).


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