On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:33:59AM -0500, Steve Feehan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:11:46AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 at 11:42am, Raphael H. Becker wrote > > > Is it possible to run a multi-volume tar as a > > > full backup manually and just use dump to get > > > the incrementals (in amanda)? It would need 3 /9 > > > of our tapes, and the other 6 tapes will be available > > > to use with Amanda. > > dump would need something from which to calculate the incrementals, so I > > don't think that would work. > You can update the /etc/dumpdates file by hand. This is what dump uses > to determine when the last dump of a given level was performed.
Good idea! ... or just doing the full-backup with dump, too and splitting the archive "manually" (by an external script) to 3 tapes. But how will amanda know "never do full-backup, not even an initial" on this partition? How will amanda "know" about the existing full-backup and will start(!) here with incrementals and will never request a full-backup for this partition? Or will it be better to exclude this partition from the amanda-scheduler and do full/incrementals with an external solution (scripts etc)? Regards Raphael Becker PS: one dump encapsulated in a multi-tar-archive stored on 3 tapes ... that's what i will try to do for "full-backup".
