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, > -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous