Buy yourself some more tapes dude!

Michael Martinez

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Cartron [mailto:nc AT ncartron DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:03 AM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: 
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> I want to install Amanda on a production environment,
> backup server on FreeBSD and clients running Linux, Solaris 
> or FreeBSD.
> 
> I read in the section dedicated to Amanda (in the 'Unix 
> backup & recovery',
> O'reilly) the following lines :
> 
> AMANDA currently starts a new tape for each run and does not provide a
> mechanism to append a new run to the same tape as a previous run
> 
> We are currently running Brightstor from Computer Associates,
> doing a full backup every sunday, and incremental backups on ONE tape
> everyday.
> Does that mean that if i want to do the same with Amanda, i have to
> rotate the tape every day ?
> (I forgot to explain that I have 2 DLT tapes backuping the datas).
> 
> Thanks in advance for your explanations.
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas CARTRON
> 
>