Re: strategies for Mac desktops

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
OK, so maybe I shot myself in the foot by asking too much (no replies from anyone in over 24 hours) ;-). Let me pare this down to one simple question -- Will Amanda efficiently do server side incremental backups of hard link intensive rsync based backups being stored on the server from a

Release of amanda-3.3.0

2011-06-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 3.3.0. Source tarballs are available from * http://www.amanda.org * https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 Binaries for many systems are available from *

Re: strategies for Mac desktops

2011-06-02 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, June 02, 2011 04:29:42 PM Chris Hoogendyk did opine: OK, so maybe I shot myself in the foot by asking too much (no replies from anyone in over 24 hours) ;-). Let me pare this down to one simple question -- Will Amanda efficiently do server side incremental backups of hard link

Re: strategies for Mac desktops

2011-06-02 Thread John Hein
As you surmised, these are mostly gtar questions. If your DLE is not a filesystem, then the other dump-ish choices are out. But gtar (and star as well as the various flavors of dump) does _try_ to save space when it encounters hard links. For instance (gtar 1.26), mkdir xx dd if=/dev/zero

Re: strategies for Mac desktops

2011-06-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 03:18:52PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: OK, so maybe I shot myself in the foot by asking too much (no replies from anyone in over 24 hours) ;-). Let me pare this down to one simple question -- Will Amanda efficiently do server side incremental backups of hard link