If you're planning to use tape, you might want to check out
StorageMountain.com's on-line "Using Amanda" excerpt from the book,
"Unix Backup & Recovery":

http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html

(I believe this was mentioned during Scot's talk on backups ...)

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