On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:11:46AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > 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.
You can update the /etc/dumpdates file by hand. This is what dump uses to determine when the last dump of a given level was performed. -- Steve Feehan