Olivier Nicole wrote:

Hello,

I wonder if there is a set-up for Amanda to back-up files by inum
rather than by filename.

The reason would be the following: I have one machine that receives
all syslog possible for each and every of my Unix hosts. Syslog logs
are rotated every night and I keep them for one year, the total size
is about 13 GB. Due to rotation, file all.0.gz becomes all.1.gz, file
all.1.gz becomes all.2.gz etc. Files do not change a single bit, only
their filename change. But still Amanda ends up backing up all the
files every night because f the change in name which is obviously a
lost of time and of tape.

Frank

Another case where it would apply is a mail server with maildir format
mailboxes. Each email is store in an individual file and the file is
moved around on the server, but never modified, the messages would not
need to be backed up every time it is moved from one folder to
another, the only thing changing would be the folder/directory
contents.

My setup is: amanda-2.4.2p2 with gnutar

best regards,

olivier