OK, I think I have amanda figured out :-) At least I can save to a
tape and then restore from it using amrestore.
One of the reasons I chose amanda was it used 'standard' tools.
However I have not been able to read a tape made with amanda using
tar. I've tried tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0cbn and using dd and piping the
output to tar but I just get 'this doesn't look like a tar archive'
Being able to restore using 'standard' UNIX utilities is important to
my overall backup strategy so can I use tar to restore from a tape
made with amanda? If not, will dump work better? I'm not prejudiced
either way.
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-- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt
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Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young
women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to
burn more young women.
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