If you really want to know for sure, make two conf files.  One always
full backup the other incremental.  Run the full when you want full and
incremental when you want that.  Thats what we do.  Amanda if left to
itself will manage the backups so as not use more tapes.  Amanda will
full some structures and incremental others to make it fit on a tape.

If you have large tapes and can do all full saves on one run then you can
manage it yourself with seperate conf files.

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:02:47 -0700, "Yogish" <yogish.gk AT ahsinc DOT com> said:
> Hi all
> I am not sure how to do incremental backups, I have configured in
> amanda.conf to only one full dump in a week, but not sure how I can be
> exactly sure that it is doing a incremental backup and not a full backup.
> How do I configure amanda,if I used the 5th tape different for each week(
> so I that we have backups of longer period of time)
> Regards
> Yogish