Amanda is much better than that. It will but the backup in a holding disk i.e. folder/partition until space runs out or hits the limit you set.
It will not overwrite another tape unless you force it by hand, which is good. You don't have to figure out which tape, amanda tells you. You can even browse the backup files like a normal Unix system and restore per file. You have not spec'd how often you backup either, how much data and much more if we need to help you. Read the docs first and look at this site: http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joe Konecny Sent: 31 August 2004 15:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need help with backup plan Right now I back up my Netware server with Arcserve to a single tape. I have 10 tapes. The system is set up to accept any tape and run a full backup. What we do is keep the tapes in rotation and if someone forgets to bring a tape back from off site it is no big deal we just use the next one. Arcserve assigns each tape a new ID when it uses it. We write the date of the backup on the case of each tape. If a restore is needed we figure out what date we want and insert the tape. Arcserve will tell us the tape ID and then we can restore from that session. Now I'm switching to FreeBSD and have a working Amanda install with 10 tapes. I have yet to configure the cycle, etc... as I'm not sure how to make it work like Arcserve did. Can Amanda be made to work like that?
