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From: Matt Hamilton <matt@boris.clintondale.com>
To: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com>
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Subject: Re: Backup strategies
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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Branson Matheson wrote:

>  Hmmm.. mabey you don't understand how amanda works... it will do a
>  complete level 0 once per dumpcycle and the rest of the time it will
>  do incrementals... that means that you _can_ restore using the full

So does it do incrementals from the last level 0 dump or from the last
incremental ie. if I do a level 0 on Monday and incrementals tue, wed,
thu, fri and it crashes friday do I need tapes Monday and Friday or tapes
Mon, tue, wed,thu, fri?

-Matt