> -----Original Message----- > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 at 9:51am, Ean Kingston wrote > > > I don't believe so. Amanda uses either the vendor supplied dump > > program, or GNU tar to do the backup. I know GNU tar does not do > > differential backup and AFAIK none of the vendor supplied > dump programs > > will do differential backup either (I'm pretty sure for > Solaris, AIX, > > *BSD, and Linux derivatives). > > The terminology here is a bit confusing. If by > "differential" you mean > only the bits (not whole files, but bits, like rsync) that > have changed, > then no, neither tar nor dump do that. But if Roberto meant > incremental > (as in the files that have changed), then of course amanda does that. > > Just trying to clarify for the archives.
Good point. Since a 'differential backup' is 'just the bits that changed' (like rsync) for other backup software I've used, I assumed that Roberto meant that. Perhaps I should have been clearer.