Buy yourself some more tapes dude! Michael Martinez
> -----Original Message----- > From: Nicolas Cartron [mailto:nc@;ncartron.com] > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: > > > All, > > I want to install Amanda on a production environment, > backup server on FreeBSD and clients running Linux, Solaris > or FreeBSD. > > I read in the section dedicated to Amanda (in the 'Unix > backup & recovery', > O'reilly) the following lines : > > AMANDA currently starts a new tape for each run and does not provide a > mechanism to append a new run to the same tape as a previous run > > We are currently running Brightstor from Computer Associates, > doing a full backup every sunday, and incremental backups on ONE tape > everyday. > Does that mean that if i want to do the same with Amanda, i have to > rotate the tape every day ? > (I forgot to explain that I have 2 DLT tapes backuping the datas). > > Thanks in advance for your explanations. > > -- > Nicolas CARTRON > >
