On Thu February 27 2003 11:05, Matt Hyclak wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:43:31AM -0500, Gene Heskett enlightened 
us:
>> On Thu February 27 2003 07:53, Matt Hyclak wrote:
>> >On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:20:41AM +0100, forster AT bluemail DOT ch
[...]
>> >> NOTES:
>> >>   planner: pbrazor1.tszrh.csfb.com /ora 20030226 0 [dump
>> >> larger than tape, full dump delayed]
>> >
>> >This is why. It must be bigger than 3900 mbytes after amanda
>> > compresses it, so it won't fit on a single tape. Amanda
>> > doesn't span tapes, so you'll have to split this up with tar.
>>
>> What am I missing here Matt?  Thats not the same DLE he quotes
>> at the top of the message, so how does that become reconciled?
>> Not trying to be nibby, just curious :)
>
>There's only one /ora in his dump summary...I was working on the
> assumption that the output from df at the beginning of the
> message is the same partition. It looks to me that it is an
> ~8.7GB partition with ~6.8GB in use and ~1.8GB free. Obviously
> 6.8GB isn't going to fit on a 4GB tape, but compressed it might
> have at one point in time. It's just not anymore.
>
>So the way I see it he'll have to split /ora up with tar, no?

Yes. :-)

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