Re: Puzzling discrep in Amanda logs

In article <1135784194.987332.98780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ben Tisdall <unrulyelectrons@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Many thanks to Dave Love everyone that contributed. Having had done
>some test restores with amrestore I think I'm pretty happy with
>snapshots/amanda for regular data backups. I just need to come up with
>a satisfactory disaster recovery strategy now...

I dug out the link with the bit about why dump is bad... Although it
applies equally to anything trying to dump a live filesystem - here it
is for anyone who cares:

http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html

As for the disaster recovery... Be on holiday at the time ;-)

Gordon
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