Bernard_Wu AT NCCI DOT COM wrote:

Does anyone know how to configure AMANDA for incremental backups only,
where the full dump is done outside AMANDA.

Yes.

;)

http://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda.conf.5.html

Look for the dumptype-parameter "strategy":
Setting this to "strategy nofull" should do what you want.

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