On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:09:37AM -0700, Steven Kurylo wrote: > 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?
It has been suggested as an excellent enhancement to amanda. No one has yet taken up the task of implementing it. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
