Question 3:

>From reading the documentation it seems that I have to backup a
complete filesystem and can not simply define a b/u directory like a
/home/user1

Is this correct?


Question 4:

The tapedevice is:

define tapetype SDLT320 {
     comment "HP Super DLTtape I, data cartridge, C7980A"
     length 139776 mbytes
     filemark 0 kbytes
     speed 13980 kps
 }

I obtained the specifics from the Amanda wiki.  When I define the b/u
job in the dump type definitions section of amanda.conf do I need to
specify any compression?   I do not think that the tape drive does
any.  At least with BRU you do not need to worry about that setting.

Question 5:

I have also read that amanda is not able to append to a tape.  At the
moment the incrementals and differentials write to the same tape for
the same b/u job.   If I can not append to the tape do I need to
change them after each incremental?   I think I am not understanding
this correctly.

Thanks!

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Enrico Indiogine
Parasol Laboratory
Texas A&M University

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