[wplug] back-up to DVD

[terry mcintyre]

>From what I read, Amanda does do incrementals - 
it simply doesn't let u specify a fixed 
schedule; instead, it uses incrementals to 
fulfill a policy, such as "do a full backup 
every five days".


--- Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:

> Vanco, Don wrote:
> > oooh - didn't see that.  I was hoping that there's
> be an extension to
> > something like Amanda.  Does Amanda now support
> incremental back ups?
> 
> http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2510478
> 
> In short, no.  The amanda folks have some strange
> ideas about how 
> incrementals should be performed, and also are
> strangely against things 
> like appending to tapes.  I don't agree with their
> reasons, and I think 
> it's why everyone says that amanda is better for
> small solutions.
> -- 
> Jonathan S. Billings <billings at negate.org>
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