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| -rw-r--r-- | misc/amanda/pkg/DESCR | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/misc/amanda/pkg/DESCR b/misc/amanda/pkg/DESCR index d22b3394fd2..13280e0593b 100644 --- a/misc/amanda/pkg/DESCR +++ b/misc/amanda/pkg/DESCR @@ -37,7 +37,10 @@ a single 5 Gigabyte Exabyte EXB-8500. Here are some features of Amanda: fail. * can compress dumps before sending over net, with either compress or gzip. * can optionally syncronize with external backups, for those large - timesharing computers where you want to do fu-------------------------------------------- + timesharing computers where you want to do full dumps when the system + is down in single-user mode (since BSD dump is not reliable on active + filesystems): Amanda will still do your daily dumps. + * lots of other options; Amanda is very configurable. Amanda requires a host that is mostly idle at night, with a large capacity tape drive (e.g. an EXABYTE or DAT tape). This becomes the "tape server |