Thanks.  Might take you up on it, things seem smooth now (but I'm not done
yet.)  If you're not using dump, what are *you* happy with?

Phil M

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Tom Hudak wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:19:39PM -0500, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
> >I know someone -- I think Carl Soderstrom -- was mucking with Amanda.  I
> >need to get it up and running.  It seems straight forward, but I was
> >wondering if anyone had a suggestion as to things to watch for.  What are
> >the tricky bits?
> For the love of god DO NOT USE DUMP!!!!! What an evil pos! I have lost many
> backups due to dumps inability to do things right.
> 
> Other than that, I'll let you look at my config if you'd like, things are
> running smoothly around here (when Ben changes tapes if I leave town. *ahem*)
> and provided you have a good tape drive (again... *ahem*)
> 
> It's pretty straight forward when you get it finished. You'll sit there and
> tell yourself, "Self, that wasn't so hard after all." :-P
> 
> Thanks,
> 

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