On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 17:05 -0500, Matt Burkhardt wrote:
> You know, the more that I get to know and understand Amanda, the more
> I'm impressed.  Thanks guys!

Great!

> 
> First off, I have one laptop - but it appears that someone has to be
> logged on in order for the backup to work properly.  I thought with
> the additional user, the machine just had to be on.  Did I do
> something wrong?  Is it possible to just have it sign on and backup
> without a "real" user on?

This shouldn't be necessary.  Are you sure that this isn't a sleep/wake
issue?  How is the backup failing?

> 
> I know that Zmanda does MySQL backups - but does Amanda as well?  Is
> that one of the differentiations for the products?

Yes, this is Zmanda's ZRM product although there is a community version
as well, http://zmanda.com/download-zrm.php

> 
> As always - thanks for your quick answers and thoughts...

You bet,
Paul