Joe Konecny wrote:

Gavin Henry wrote:

Amanda is much better than that. It will but the backup in a holding disk
i.e. folder/partition until space runs out or hits the limit you set.

It will not overwrite another tape unless you force it by hand, which
is good.

You don't have to figure out which tape, amanda tells you. You can even browse the backup files like a normal Unix system and restore per file.

You have not spec'd how often you backup either, how much data and much more

if we need to help you.

Read the docs first and look at this site:

http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html

So... is amanda really not made for disaster recovery?  That's great
that it will back up to a holding disk with no tape but if the hard
drive dies it's rather meaningless.

Umm.. You're supposed to flush the holdingdisk to tape as soon as you
realise that you forgot to change tapes the other day.

Then you are safe..