Best way to backup cyrus system (lots of inodes!)

[John Hughes]

>> How are you doing the actual backup?  I cannot recommend vxdump too
>> highly, it is rather awkward to use but *MANY* times faster than
>> tar or find/cpio, especialy if you're doing incremental backups.

> We're using amanda going to a RAID array on another system.

At www.amanda.org I see "AMANDA uses native dump and/or GNU tar
facilities"

Can you use vxdump with amanda?