Keith Nicewarner wrote:
> Jon,
> 
> Thanks for the 101 course -- that was very helpful.  I'm now wondering
> if amanda is what I really need.  I have a 90 GB single-tape drive and
> (currently) about 15 GB of uncompressed files (from du -k) to be backed
> up.  Incremental backups should be in the 10-50 MB range (uncompressed).
> And to top it off, it's (currently) a single client machine.  So a
> single tape should last me a long time!  I want a low-maintenance
> automated backup system that will just email me when I've filled a tape
> and need to stick in a new one.  Perhaps amanda is way overkill for me
> right now.  Can anyone suggest an alternative?  Hopefully one that is
> exceedingly simple for a novice to operate?
> 
> Keith.

Although I have Amanda configs at work with 100+ DLEs, I also use
Amanda at home for just a couple of hosts.  At home, since my tape
can hold nearly two week of backups, I just let them pile up on the
holdingdisk, and only insert a tape once a week.  By having autoflush
enabled, whenever a tape is present the backups on the holdingdisk
get written to tape.  Might work for you.

Frank