On: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:33:53 -0700 (PDT) Max writes: > > I just set up my system to use Amanda only to discover that it > cannot append to tapes, thus wasting a ton of space on every run > (imagine putting a 90MB incremental backup on a tape that can store > 24GB and then using a brand new tape the next night). Is there > another package with a similar level of sophistication and features > as Amanda that can append to tapes? How does afbackup stack up? > Any others?
afbackup uses the whole tape, requesting a new one as necessary.[1] I use it for my regular full and incremental backups and it worked very well so far. The current version is 3.1beta1-1 and available in slink, main, utils. You need afbackup-client too. Torsten Footnotes: [1] It uses a backup set in a similar way to amanda.