Dear all, We have lots of data in a folder called /usr/local/clients, with a subfolder for each client. Up to now I've been able to let amanda do a full backup every night, but now we're getting close to exceeding acceptable time and tape capacity limits.
Once a month I take one tape out of amanda's set of tapes as a monthly long-term archive. What I want to do now is continue doing full backups every night, but exclude any data that will have been backed up to the monthly archive tape. What suggestions would you have in terms of the best way to achieve this? Ask nicely that people tar up older data with an agreed-upon filename, such as client_name_archived.tar.gz, and then exclude *_archived.tar.gz? Have a script that automatically modifies the exclude file on the amanda client with a massive list of files that haven't been modified during the past month? I'd appreciate any advice on this. I guess the main concern would be to know on what monthly archive tape to find whatever data I need to restore, should this become necessary. Thanks.
