>Is amanda capable of backing up mounted filessystems?
That's the wrong question. Amanda doesn't do backups. Amanda runs other
programs that do backups. So you need to ask if whatever backup program
you told Amanda to use (e.g. GNU tar, ufsdump or whatever) is capable.
And the answer will be "yes", but with caveats. Any backup program is
going to have issues with data changing out from under it. GNU tar is
probably best at it because it goes through the same OS calls that normal
applications do. But others are perfectly fine under some conditions
(which OS and level, file system type, amount and kind of activity,
current number of sunspots, ... :-).
>Denise
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
