Hi, Right now we run a weekly full backup, rotating through several tapes. As well we run a full monthly backup, rotating through the tapes yearly.
Running a weekly backup and then a monthly backup is rather wasteful, the data will almost be identical. Is there anyway I can take the weekly backup which just finished and copy it to the monthly tapes? I could use dd, but then amanda wouldn't know about these monthly tapes. That would make restoring data troublesome. Is there a way to make amanda copy data from a tape labeled "weekly1" to "monthly1"? Or can I manually copy certain files from the weekly index/info directories to the monthly directory to make amrestore work after I dd the tapes? Is there a better solution? Thanks.
