Cyrille Bollu wrote: > No. Amanda does not allow appending dumps on a same cartidge. That's by > design.
Neither can I put all the full dumps into the same cartridge? Since full dumping a server would require around 10/20GB, the cartridge would be almost empty! > I think it's possible to run an Amanda configuration that only does > incremental daily backups and another one that run only full weekly > backups. > > Then you would only export the weekly full backups. > > You will probably use in that case 2(weeks)*X(tapes_per_full) + > 7(days)*X(tapes_per_incremental). So let say 9 tapes instead of 15. > > What do you think? I think personally that is a waste of space using a single 400GB cartridge for every full dump. I'd rather use the same cartridge for every all the server... > On Amanda side, it would probably not be that tricky. Probably the most > trickiest part of the job will be to handle these 2 sets of tapes > (weekly and daily) in your 8-tapes robot. It has 16 tapes if this can help. -- Fabio Corazza - Engineering NewBay Software, Ltd. Wilson House, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, Ireland Phone: +353 1 634 5490 - e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
