[wplug] Amanda backup increment

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Mon Mar 1 11:43:38 EST 2004


Wise, Jeremey wrote:
> Is their anyone out their using Amanda. Their site is not the best. I did an
> installed amanda-2.4.2p2-7.i386.rpm and it lacks any man pages. The customer
> wants to do appends to a single LTO tape drive for ~300MB file. They want to
> do this continually until the tape is full +one a month full system backup.
> Offsite is provided by scp copy script for the ~300MB tar/gziped file.

Not a _direct_ answer to your question, but some alternatives.

Consider rsync as a replacement for scp: less bandwidth.

dump can do what you want, but you'll need to write some sort of script to
manage it.  I don't know of anything pre-built out there.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com




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