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Thanks fo your reply.
My understanding (as far as that goes) has always been that
amanda can only do full and incremental backups?
I've been doing full backups because until now we've had
the capacity to do that. If I switch to the way amanda should really work,
then does that not mean that I'll get full and incremental backups, which will
make the restore process more cumbersome in terms of the number of tapes needed
for a restore?
I'm still using amanda 2.4.4.
Will appreciate your advice on
this.
At first sight it looks very easy: You
are currently only doing full-daily backups. So, switch to regular
incremental/differential backups and you'll be fine (No need to ask people doing
tar files...)
Also, Amanda has all the
features you need to keep track of where your files have been backuped. (eg:
"index yes" in amanda.conf, amrecover, amtoc,...)
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> What I want to do now is continue doing full backups
every night, but
> exclude any data that will have been backed up to the
monthly archive
> tape.
IMHO, you are
describing a differential backup scheme here.
Cyrille
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