I've been using Amanda for a while, but I'm not terribly clear on the details of indexing. My impression to date is that indexing is required if you which to use amrecover, but is not if you're willing to hand-restore filesystems with a dump or tar image from a tape.
Is that mostly accurate? If so, and I'm correct that indexing is off by default (at least in Debian and FreeBSD installations), doesn't that mean that admins can't use 'amrecover' without tweaking? Is there a reason for not having it enabled by default? Why would you *not* want indexing enabled? Why *would* you want indexing enabled? Note: I'll be perfectly happy for an "RTFM" answer if it also includes a pointer to documentation that concisely answers my questions. :) -- Kirk Strauser
