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Re: Incremental Backups

2002-12-05 21:58:25
Subject: Re: Incremental Backups
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:16:10 -0500
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:51:24PM -0500, Novocon Technical Support wrote:
> Is it at all possible to do incremental backups to the same tape that a full 
> backup is on? 
> 
> I saw in the FAQs that this did not seem possible but was wondering if anyone 
> had a potential workaround since the FAQ was posted.

Don't tape for several days, let dumps collect on a holding disk.
Then amdump all held dumps to one tape.

Don't let that tape go bad, you will loose a lot.

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Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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