This one time, at band camp, Skylar Thompson wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:09:42PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>> 
>> Because the database being dumped is not on the machine that runs amdump,
>> and adding another RPC that duplicates the one already in amanda is
>> unjustifiable.
>
>It would be a bit of a hack, but if you're already writing a shell script
>you could use some kind of passworldess SSH system (public keys or
>otherwise) that would login to the amdump machine and do a dump of the
>database.

Yes.

Currently, we have somethign that works good enough.  If I wanted to make it
better, I'd do it right rather than add another hack, I think that would be
a much better investment of time.

But thanks for your advice.