On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 at 11:42am, Raphael H. Becker wrote > Is it possible to run a multi-volume tar as a > full backup manually and just use dump to get > the incrementals (in amanda)? It would need 3 /9 > of our tapes, and the other 6 tapes will be available > to use with Amanda.
dump would need something from which to calculate the incrementals, so I don't think that would work. > What do you think all about this? > Any other/better ideas? I've got a 560GB RAID that I backup using AIT1 tapes. I use tar, and split the RAID up into lots of smaller chunks (by user, e.g.). You just have to make sure that none of the chunks get bigger than a tape. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
