On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:09:37AM -0700, Steven Kurylo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Right now we run a weekly full backup, rotating through several tapes. 
> As well we run a full monthly backup, rotating through the tapes yearly.
> 
> Running a weekly backup and then a monthly backup is rather wasteful,
> the data will almost be identical.  Is there anyway I can take the
> weekly backup which just finished and copy it to the monthly tapes?
> 
> I could use dd, but then amanda wouldn't know about these monthly
> tapes.  That would make restoring data troublesome.  Is there a way to
> make amanda copy data from a tape labeled "weekly1" to "monthly1"?  Or
> can I manually copy certain files from the weekly index/info directories
> to the monthly directory to make amrestore work after I dd the tapes?
> 
> Is there a better solution?

It has been suggested as an excellent enhancement to amanda.
No one has yet taken up the task of implementing it.

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