George,

It's not the only reason I'm sure, but if you wish to exclude files from
your archive you must use tar.  Dump does not allow this. 

Drew

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 11:42, Henson, George Mr JMLFDC wrote:
> All,
> 
> We are still new to Amanda and would greatly appreciate some advise on
> how to best configure  the system
> 
> What are the advantages or disadvantages to using tar instead of dump?
> Is there a difference in restoring a single file? a file system? or
> the whole system? (other then changing restore to tar x)
> 
> If it helps, we are using HP/UX 11i (on an N class system) to backup
> about 10 client (HP/UX 11, HP/UX 11i, and Linux) onto LTO media using
> a C7200 silo/changer.
> 
> Thank you,
> George Henson
>