I'm about to do my first Amanda install next week (or so I thought), so I pulled out my O'Reilly "Unix Backup and Recovery" book. It's from 1999, and refers to Amanda version 2.4.2, but it says "Amanda currently starts a new tape for each run and does not provide a mechanism to append a new run to the same tape as a previous run ...". So I thought, well, that's probably out of date and I went to check the docs at Amanda.org, which appear to have been written for v. 2.4.2 as well and not updated (although the version I got through yum a couple days ago is 2.4.5). Can anyone tell me if this is still true? Also, it looks like Bacula works the other way--it keeps writing to a tape until it's full (although I can't tell yet if that's true over multiple jobs). Can anyone confirm that? This is for a very small business, with employees who aren't in the office a lot. The idea was to change the tape weekly, but write differentials to it 6 nights a week, and a full backup once a week (or something like that). The tapes are easily big enough to hold that much, and changing them more often would be very expensive. Maybe I should just write a script and use tar. Thanks a lot, Matt
