On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 03:55:12PM -0600, Steve Manuel wrote:
> 
> BTW, I don't remember any doc that listed all the dump programs and
> their corresponding time-stamp DB. Should this be listed in the man
> pages or somewhere else? 

IIRC, the various dump programs all maintain their own dumpdate files.
I was only assuming that they may not all use /etc/dumpdates.
But as amanda does nothing with those files, IMHO, amanda should
not document them.  Plus, I just looked at 3 different systems, two
having backup programs named simply "dump".  Each used a different
file to store their timestamps.  Certainly amanda can't list every
OS and FS dump variant and their timestamp file locations.

Tar is the odd man out; I doubt it was ever intended to be a
system-wide backup program.  It doesn't have the capability to
record its own backup dates file.  So amanda fudges a dumpdates file,
by default using /etc/amandates.

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