>The blank idea came from the software I have used for NT back ups. The
>only way it would re-use a tape was to change it's label. ...
Amanda doesn't have that restriction, although the tape would have to
not be "active", which is based on "tapecycle". Worst case, you can
use "amrmtape" to make Amanda forget about it.
>... Wouldn't it be better to run standard back-ups until I get more
>tapes so that the tape doesn't fill up as fast, and I have a longer
>period of backups on the tape. ...
That's kind of up to you. Amanda will (I think) run with only one tape,
it will just have to do a full backup every time.
>I realize how big of pain it will be if I
>have a month's worth of incremental backup's on it if I have to restore.
Also realize how big a pain it will be if the backup script gets
confused and overwrites from the beginning, thus destroying everything
you have :-).
>Is it possibe to restore single files? If so, please point me in the
>right direction.
Amanda is only responsible for getting a whole image off of tape and
handing it to your restore program, so if your restore program can do
single files (which most can), then this should be no problem.
That's certainly the way amrecover works.
>Casey
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
