Vytas Janusauskas wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>
>Still trying to configure Amanda.  I have about 20 WIn 95, Win 98 and NT 
>computers to archive.
>
>So as a starting point I have picked 3 computers which in total have 
drive 
>capacity of over 530 GB of which 430 GB is used.
>
>Using Samba I have successfully mounted the drives.  Since I have a tape 
>drive with a non-compressed capacity of less than 7 GB, I am forced to 
use 
>individual directories in the disklist.
>
>Unfortunately I have no control of where the users will be creating new 
>directories.  How do you ensure that all the directories are accounted 
for 
>in the disklist?  It is also not unusual that some of these directories 
to 
>be larger than the tape capacity.  I plan to deal with them after Amanda 
>complains about them.  For example when the backup burps on a directory, 
I 
>will them subdivide the offending directory into sub-directory's smaller 
>than the tape capacity.  Will this work or is there a better way of 
dealing 
>with these larger directories?
>
>In testing I did try to backup a directory, I though that after 
compression 
>it would fit on the tape.  Unfortunately due to the TIFF files the 
>directory did not compress as well as expected.  So now I have a dump in 
>the holding disk which will not fit on the tape.  Do I just delete the 
file 
>from the holding disk or is there a procedure I need to run so as not 
>corrupt Amanda's index files.



430 GB to a 7GB tape drive? You'll need 60 full dumps to cover it all. And 
with user data increase, you may never catch up!
 You need more tape capacity - pronto.


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