> So a backup strategy of a 1 month cycle containing 1 full back up
>followed by incrementals on the same tape is impossible, and unreliable?
First of all, Amanda won't run that way. Amanda will spread the full
dumps throughout the dump cycle.
With the current versions of Amanda, it is not possible to append multiple
amdump runs to one tape (directly).
However, if you trust your holding disk and have enough of it, you can
run without tape part of the time and then do an amflush of multiple
runs to a single tape.
This has other issues. For instance, you'll need to decrease the
"reserve" holding disk parameter so it allows full dumps. And until
you flush level N of a particular file system, N > 0, Amanda will not
advance to N+1.
>I have 8 tapes, and would like to spread them out as much as possible so
>that I will have a long time span available on backup. Can you recommend a
>strategy for that?
Yes. Buy more tapes. 1/2 :-)
>Casey Scott
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
