> I read Amanda doc and I read about backup but it doesn't fit with my understanding. >I can see dumping (ufsdump on Solaris) a whole filesystem and > restoring it....though how you get an individual file out of it, is another thing. >I can see taring a filesystem so that you can give the idiot user > back his deleted files....though how you would use a tar'ed tape to restore an OS is >another thing. It's sort of like building a bridge while > standing on thin air...maybe Wile Coyote can do it (for a while, until he looks >down). How do you do both? AIX and sysback have built-in magic, > but.....
Here's what I do with AIX: do once in a month an mksysb tape and daily Amanda runs. mksysb only backups the rootvg! This is for a bootable tape in case the drives fail. Every filesystem in each VG is backed up by Amanda. No experience yet with sysback.
