Having initially considered Bacula, I chose amanda for use in backup due to it's better organized documentation. Being a newbie, I selected the quick start getting started tutorial as the first step through the online documents.
In that process, I consulted the bsd authentication howto for more information on authentication. I also found the vtape howto very helpful since I did not have a physical tape device. Having gone followed the tutorial and branching into the howtos at the relevant sections, I was able to do a successful test run.
Using another article in the howtos collection, I made further changes to the configuration to allow for dumps to be split across multiple tapes (vtapes in my case). It was then time to follow another howto to duplicate that configuration to the production environment where the virtual tapes needed to be configured for use on a non-Linux partition.
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