David Newman wrote:

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:

On Sunday 13 February 2005 12:02, David Newman wrote:

Greetings. For backups to a server with one DLT-IV drive, I would
like to change the tape once per week. During the week, I would
like to do one full backup on day 1, and incremental backups on
days 2-5.

[snip]

Yes, because it thinks its over-writing the last full level 0 with
each new backup.

This isn't so good; again, I'm looking for one full dump and four incremental dumps on each tape. (FWIW, the server in question is at a remote location and we can't get to it every day.)

Jon LaBadie's post on the Amanda top 10 list suggests that Amanda is not the right tool for this. Is there some way to do this using Amanda?

If not, any recommendations for alternatives?

Eg;