Mark Holm wrote:
> I have a 35Gb holding disk on the machine running Amanda right now, which
> with compression should hold about 1/2 of what we are attempting to backup,
> especially if I can get it down to just incrementals during the week. I have
> had several suggestions about doing a separate run for archives and letting
> Amanda still do fulls and incrementals, but that seems like it would waste a
> lot of tape in the end.
If the daily backups fit on one tape, the you would use more inches
of that tape, but the price would be just the same (1 tape), and moreover
it would be easier to recover from those tapes, than to get the tape
with full dumps from your offside location. So that's an argument
to make a full backup for archiving purposes in the weekends, and
let amanda do normal runs for the dailies doing both fulls & incrementals
and daily restores.
ps. my previous post was not about your problem, but about the hint
that you probably use software AND hardware compression, which
is counterproductive (tapespeed and tapespace), but correcting
that would not solve the problem you have now ofcourse.
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