On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, John P . Looney wrote:
> 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.
amanda does incrementals by default. (unless you tell it to only ever
do level 0's). Even better it has a 'planner' that tries to spread
the full dumps of your different disks across your dump cycle.
>> What sort of "dumptype" do you use to get it to use dump instead of tar ?
> Or does it to that automatically ?
comp-tar.
>> Kate
oh yeah, you'll also want to get the amanda 2.4.2 code, either from
CVS or else rawhide has RPMs of them.
regards,
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