Greetings, Amanda does not backup data. She uses the filesystems native backup utility, usually some form of "dump". So this way it is not amanda that archives the data it is the filesystems utilities, which should account for the locking issues.
HTH, Drew On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Ronald O. Christian wrote: > > Let's say that for whatever reason an organization is a heavy user of > the Andrew file system. (No NFS at all -- all AFS.) There are > apparently locking issues with commercial backup software backing up > Andrew file systems. (or so I've been told) The company in question > has been using Budtool forever, and hated every moment of it. > > How would amanda benefit this situation? > > Thanks. > > > Ron > > http://roc85.home.attbi.com > "Protesters against the wearing of animal skins by humans > unaccountably fail to throw paint over Hell's Angels." > -- Terry Pratchett >
