On Monday May 03 2004 11:05 pm, Justin Gombos wrote:
> * Jonathan Dill <jfdill AT jfdill DOT com> [2004-05-02 12:44]:
> > As others have pointed out, 700 MB CD-R is probably not going to be
> > adequate for backing up multiple clients across the network anyway.
>
> I'll have to figure that out.  I'm having trouble realizing how Amanda
> behaves.  So far it doesn't look like I can reasonably predict when
> each file gets backed up. 

If a file's time stamp changes it will get backed up on teh next run.  I find 
that pretty simple to predict.

> It seems it can't do a full backup, and
> then small incrementals that include only changed files.

That is exactly what it does:  A full backup of the data within each dumpcycle 
and all changed data is backed up between full dumps.

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