On Wed February 26 2003 06:26, Kablan BOGNINI wrote: >Hi, > >How can I merge incremental backup to full backup >without using AMANDA ?
On the same tape? For dependability reasons, amanda won't do that because she has no way of knowing when next restarted, where on the tape and how much of it has been used. In between sessions, someone may have ejected the tape and re-inserted it, which would rewind it. If amanda then does an incremental on the same tape as your only full, the full is over-written and lost. Not a pleasant scene with the boss if you should need to do a full recovery 3 hours after that incremental was done. Tape is cheap when compared to the cost of lost data and the cost of regenerating that lost data from scratch. Consider if the lost data is your only full, uptodate copy of your accounts receivable... Buy the tapes. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.23% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
