> Anyone know if Amanda can do incremental backups ? After looking at the
> docs, it looks like it can be beaten into using dump, which I assume does
> track what it's backed up & since when.
It uses dump by default, and it does incremental backups by default.
In fact, it uses quite an intelligent scheduling algorithm to keep as
many backups of as low a level as possible as will fit on a tape.
Just let it do its thing (don't forget to add the 'index' option to
the dumptypes you use) and don't worry about whether it's doing
incrementals or fulls; It Knows Best.
Colm
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