On Apr 3, 2001, "Dave Hecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to use "dd" , or some similar tool to make exact images
> of a drive as a full backup, rather than dump or tar. [...] Can
> Amanda be modified to do this?
Yep. That's the kind of thing you should be able to do with the
DUMPER API, under (stalled) development for Amanda 2.5. Meanwhile,
you could configure Amanda to run some shell-script instead of GNU
tar, that would run dd after examining the command-line arguments.
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