I am new here as well and was quickly pointed to
http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html as a good starting point for
Amanda. Also look in the docs dir that comes with the Amanda source, it
might be installed in /usr/share/docs/amanda on your system.

HTH,

Jay


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of ADFH
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:37 AM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: CDR backup options for linux

Could someone suggest a good reference source on getting started with
Amanda and cdrw-taper in a Linux (Debian 'unstable') environment?

Alternately could someone suggest another backup package that can write
to multiple CDRs, can handle individual files bigger than a CD, and
allows individual file recovery rather than requiring a complete
partition reimage?

Someone suggested afbackup might have CDR facilities - but I couldn't
find anything to this effect. Amanda is bewildering me from a lack of
documentation (and I think I need some cdrw-changer program/patch on top
of cdrw-taper).

Mondo seems to do a filesystem image, and some of the other more basic
CD backup programs won't handle files bigger than a CD. Helllllp :)

Most happy to RTFM - have been having difficulty locating good
references at this point, however.