On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 23:11 +0200, Marc Muehlfeld wrote: > Thomas Wegner schrieb: > > I don't understood how to use cron for sheduling backups. The > > documentation tells about using cron. Which cron file must be > > configured? /etc/amanda/cron.amanda or /etc/crontab? I'm running ubuntu > > 8.04. > > > # man crontab
...and as you want to run amdump as the Amanda user, you will want to edit this user's crontab.
