Hello!

> Assuming you are backing up with gnutar, not dump,
> have you read the docs or the amanda.conf comments
> and checked out the "exclude" and "include" directives?

My environment is that of many machines to backup and a single  
backupserver; so this means I would have to setup a network filesystem to  
let the server access these files (or have the users but them somewhere on  
that machine). Also, I'm a bit concerned if an error in a single  
configuration file screws up the whole backup.

Cheers,

Jens