On Friday 15 February 2002 12:49 pm, Bort, Paul wrote: > What you are asking for is technically possible, and not all that difficult, > but ill-advised. > > If something blows up during the backup on Sunday, you are back to the > previous Sunday's backups, if you still have them. (If you don't have them, > you're really toast.) > Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear enough... The changer has a 6-tape cartridge. I want to use one full empty cart on Sunday for full backups, replace the cart Monday, and use a single tape in the (new) cart for the incrementals Monday-Saturday, and drop another new cart in on Sunday for that week's full dump.
I primarily want it this way because I can't go on-site every day to change the tape cartridge. It may be trivial, but I'm still an Amanda newbie. Well, I'm still a centrally-located-network-backup-to-changer newbie, which may be hindering me more. Anyways... can you divulge how I'd get this running, or suggest a better solution? It seems silly to stick 6 DAT tapes (24gb) in a tape cartridge that has to be swapped out every day when the daily incremental backups aren't breaking 250mb. I'm completely open to alternate solutions if you can suggest one.
