On Monday 15 February 2010, ay4you wrote: >Hi, >Does anyone know how to delete amanda backups from a certain date and how > can i confirm that the backups are incremental
If you are correctly configured, and this is dependent on what you want to do, those tapes that have fallen off the end of the tapecycle are eligible to be recycled. And its all automatic. By the same token, amanda tracks the incrementals so you don't have to. If you want to recover a certain file that is in the backup(s), the recovery software will prompt you to load all the tapes, in the order of last level0 of that file, then all the incrementals needed, in order, until you have the most recent version back on your machine. What makes you want to ask the question? The man pages are surprisingly up to date, possibly the best in the free software arena. Trying to out guess a working amanda system can lead to broken recoveries. If the storage facilities are not available, I would recommend that additional tapes be obtained. I don't use them myself, using virtual tapes on a terrabyte hard drive has proven to be much less trouble for me than the cheap tapes I could afford ever were. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to school.
