On Saturday May 01 2004 08:51 pm, Justin Gombos wrote:
> I was looking forward to using Amanda to backup 4-5 machines on my LAN
> and one over the Internet, but something seems incredibly stupid about
> the way Amanda forces the user to operate.  Please tell me I'm wrong;
> maybe I'm misunderstanding the documentation.  If I want to perform
> daily backups to CDRs, and I expect to have around 10 megs of data
> change per day, do I really have to waste an entire CDR every day?

AFAIK, you are not wrong.  At least with regard to tapes:  Amanda does not put 
multiple backups on the same tape.  However it also distributes the fulls 
over the tapecycle so add at least <full>/<tapecycle> to your estimate of 
space required.

What does a CD-R cost these days?  About 35-40 cents apiece?

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