Cyrille Bollu wrote:
> No. Amanda does not allow appending dumps on a same cartidge. That's by
> design.

Neither can I put all the full dumps into the same cartridge? Since full
dumping a server would require around 10/20GB, the cartridge would be
almost empty!

> I think it's possible to run an Amanda configuration that only does
> incremental daily backups and another one that run only full weekly
> backups.
> 
> Then you would only export the weekly full backups.
> 
> You will probably use in that case 2(weeks)*X(tapes_per_full) +
> 7(days)*X(tapes_per_incremental). So let say 9 tapes instead of 15.
> 
> What do you think?

I think personally that is a waste of space using a single 400GB
cartridge for every full dump. I'd rather use the same cartridge for
every all the server...

> On Amanda side, it would probably not be that tricky. Probably the most
> trickiest part of the job will be to handle these 2 sets of tapes
> (weekly and daily) in your 8-tapes robot.

It has 16 tapes if this can help.


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