I think you need to read the amanda documentation. download the source
to amanda, and look in the docs directory.
also read this document: http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html
you restore from disk, exactly the same way you restore from tape,
please read the documents on how amanda works, they explain it much
better than I do.
Abu 'Abdis-Salam wrote:
>
> also - how do i recover from the hard disk backup if something goes wrong?
> Thanks again!
>
> mnk wrote:
>
> > thanks for your reply.
> > The thing is - I am not sure exactly what you mean - can u explain to
> > me further please?
> > Thanx again
> >
> > Ben Kochie wrote:
> >
> >> you are a bit mistaken as to how amanda works, amanda automaticaly
> >> decides if it should do a full or incremental backup each day of the
> >> backup cycle. if you only want to change tapes once a week, but have
> >> backup every night, here is what you could do.
> >>
> >> have a dump disk big enough to handle all backups for one week, and on
> >> weekends, run amflush to dump those disks to tape.
> >>
> >> mnk wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>> I was wondering - how does one back up dail incrementals onto a hard
> >>> disk while the weekly backups are on tape?
> >>> Thanks.
> >>> Mohammed
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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