Re: howto decide full vs. incremental ???

2003-07-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:18:50PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: Thank you, all of you, for your help -- I have a working amanda! Now, I am trying to understand amanda's built-in backup strategy. How can I know when `disk' will be backed up full or incremental? I do not have a changer,

Re: howto decide full vs. incremental ???

2003-07-03 Thread Steven J. Backus
Question: If you want to occasionally take a full dump off site for storage, how does one decide which tape? And when to take it?

Re: howto decide full vs. incremental ???

2003-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 July 2003 12:10, Steven J. Backus wrote: Question: If you want to occasionally take a full dump off site for storage, how does one decide which tape? And when to take it? You don't take just one tape, you take the last 'dumpcycle' tapes to offsite. When the next dumpcycle is

howto decide full vs. incremental ???

2003-07-02 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Thank you, all of you, for your help -- I have a working amanda! Now, I am trying to understand amanda's built-in backup strategy. How can I know when `disk' will be backed up full or incremental? I do not have a changer, and I have more data across all disks than single tape capacity.

Re: howto decide full vs. incremental ???

2003-07-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 23:18, Michael D. Schleif wrote: Thank you, all of you, for your help -- I have a working amanda! Now, I am trying to understand amanda's built-in backup strategy. How can I know when `disk' will be backed up full or incremental? I do not have a changer, and I have