Nicolas Cartron wrote: > > 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
If you wanted to keep one week's worth of history and ran backups 5 days a week then you would have to have 5 tapes. A single days tape may have a mix of full and incremental backups on it but they will all be from the same Amanda run. With careful use of a holding (spool) disk you can alter this behavior. Write backups for 2 or 3 days to disk and then use amflush to write them all to a single tape. Hope I've answered some of your questions. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - HMC UNIX Systems Manager
