--On Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:12:05 -0600 Earl Eiland <eee AT nmt DOT 
edu> 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


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