"John R. Jackson" wrote: > >I am trying to find the best way to create a incremental backup during the > >week, and full backup on the week end. > > Why? > > One of the major features of Amanda is that it does the scheduling for > you, and performs several types of optimization. Do you have a specific > reason for forcing it into doing things in a rigid manner?
At work (where we don't use Amanda), we do this for a couple of reasons: 1. It minimizes backup-induced performance issues on the client. 2. Our tape off-site run happens Monday, so we need the full backup at a predictable time in order to ensure that it is the tape that goes off-site (we don't send all of them - only the most recent). > >Is there a way to append incremental backups everyday? > > Do you mean append several days worth of incremental backups to a > single tape? Not currently (there are technical reasons you **never** > want to append to tape), Unfortunately for us techies, there are strong economic reasons for **always** wanting to append to tapes - DLT IV tapes cost AU$100 each, and you don't want to waste one for every 100 Mb backup you do. If we told our customers that they had to buy a separate backup tape for every backup run, they'd take their money elsewhere very quickly. Paul http://paulgear.webhop.net
