On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Federico Sevilla III wrote:

> > > Or are you talking about having libraries of tapes that go all the way
> > > back to four years ago?
> > Yes.
>
> Do each of these tapes contain full snapshots?

Or in other words, Full Backup.

> Or do they only contain differences from a previous snapshot?

Or in other words, Incremental or
differential backups.

Some tapes would contain full backups,
some would contain Incr. or diff.
backups.

> The latter would be great, but I wonder what program can manage such
> setups. Can dump do this? Amanda?

Yes. both dump and amanda can do that.

regards,

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Andre M. Varon, SCSA
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