--On Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:12:05 -0600 Earl Eiland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The website mentions that using AMANDA is a work in progress. What is > its status? > > Earl 'work in progress' just means that there are still people enhancing the code. It has been far enough along to use it for production backups for many years. I'm not sure you could get much use out of CD-Rs for backups with Amanda. It won't span media on a single disklist entry, so you would be limited to filesystems that are less than ~650MB (or that would compress to that size). Also, Amanda expects a label at the beginning of the media, so you would probably need to use CD-RW instead (or maybe the FILE driver doesn't need this?). And since CD-R changers are rare you would need to manually change the media. If you're just looking to back up a single host to a local CD burner, maybe you should look at simpler programs such as cdbackup instead. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
