On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 02:50:53PM -0400, Gentian Hila wrote:
> It it my first time trying to use AMANDA for backup. I went ahead and
> read the chapter on amanda from the book Backup and recovery in Unix,
> but it seemed to me very complicated.
> I have a RedHat ES 3 system and I am using an external usb HDD to
> backup the whole system. I want to do a full backup once a week and
> incremental backups every other day of the week.

This isn't the way amanda works. See "the friday-tape-question":

http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2555117

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