Hi, long time no talk. I have another quick questions in regards to incremental backups that is not specific to Wikipedia.
Can you perform incremental backups to the same tape every night with an append. For example, I can do a full backup one night say Monday, then have incrementals Tuesday - Sunday on one tape. The tape would stay in the drive and go offsite at the end of the week. (I know it is better to ship offsite every day, but this circumbstance is different)
How will this effect a restore since I know I have to restore the full backup then the incrementals in order. Does the software know what incremental was first since each day/incremental is appending to one tape?
Note: If each incremental was on a different tape, it would be easier since you just take each tape from the specific day it was backed up.
But how would a restore happen off one tape with multiple appended incrementals? If this can be done at all.