Backing up incrementals onto hard disk

Hello, I was wondering - how does one back up dail incrementals onto a hard disk while the weekly backups are on tape? Thanks. Mohammed

Re: Backing up incrementals onto hard disk

you are a bit mistaken as to how amanda works, amanda automaticaly decides if it should do a full or incremental backup each day of the backup cycle. if you only want to change tapes once a week, but have backup every night, here is what you could do. have a dump disk big enough to handle all ba

Re: Backing up incrementals onto hard disk

thanks for your reply. The thing is - I am not sure exactly what you mean - can u explain to me further please? Thanx again Ben Kochie wrote: > you are a bit mistaken as to how amanda works, amanda automaticaly > decides if it should do a full or incremental backup each day of the > backup cycl

Re: Backing up incrementals onto hard disk

also - how do i recover from the hard disk backup if something goes wrong? Thanks again! mnk wrote: > thanks for your reply. > The thing is - I am not sure exactly what you mean - can u explain to > me further please? > Thanx again > > Ben Kochie wrote: > >> you are a bit mistaken as to how a

Re: Backing up incrementals onto hard disk

I think you need to read the amanda documentation. download the source to amanda, and look in the docs directory. also read this document: http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html you restore from disk, exactly the same way you restore from tape, please read the documents on how amanda works, th