In a message dated: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:12:05 BST
"William Hargrove" said:

>I was thinking I could do the incremental backups to a hard disk area on the 
>tape
>server each night and then run Amanda once a week to archive the full backups 
>plus
>the HDD incremental ones.

I did this once, way back when all I had was a single DLT drive and 
no autoloader.  I would just leave the drive empty all week, and on 
Friday mornings I would pop that week's tape in then amflush 
everything to tape.  When that was done, I would place the weekend 
tape in the drive and the full dumps on Saturday night would go 
direct to tape, or, if I forgot, end up on the holding disk for 
amflushing Monday morning.

This worked quite well IMO for the small environment I had at the 
time.

HTH,
-- 
Seeya,
Paul

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