Tape Types

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Which tape changer configuration should I use in amanda.conf?
Should I use software or hardware compression?
How can I configure Amanda so that it performs full backups on the week-end and incrementals on weekdays?
What if my tape unit uses expensive tapes, and I don't want to use one tape per day? Can't Amanda append to tapes?
How can I configure Amanda for long-term archiving?
Can I backup separate disks of the same host in different configurations?
Can Amanda span large filesystems across multiple tapes?
What's the difference between option `skip-full' and `strategy nofull'?
Ok, I'm done with testing Amanda, now I want to put it in production.How can I reset its databases so as to start from scratch?
The man-page of DUMP says that active filesystems may be backed up inconsistently. What does Amanda do to prevent inconsistent backups?
Why does Amanda sometimes promote full dumps?
Can Amanda backup open files?
How do I get amanda to work with a Veritas system?
Why does tapetype report a filemark with a negative number for a size?
What is the difference between tapecycle and dumpcycle?
DUMP program not available
SSL: Error when backing up NT share?
How to configure for tapeless operation?
Solaris: Permission denied errors
How do I force a full dump of a disk or a directory?
How do I get amanda to ignore files that it can not read and keep going along its merry little way?
amlabel not working
amtapetype doesn't work with hardware compression
Configuring mt with tape type?
A script to generate settings based on questions you answer
How to configure an amanda client that is running xinetd instead of inetd
How to configure amrecover to use chg-disk tape changer
Turn off harware compression on HP Surestore DAT drives