On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:05:28PM -0500, Galen Johnson wrote:
> Has anyone tried to incorporate the -M option into the tar backups of 
> Amanda?  That particular argument is supposed to allow for multi-tape 
> spanning.   I've read that it's not usable with software compression but 
> I haven't any way to confirm it.  My access to a multidisk changer is no 
> more.  And I don't have enough to back up here to span multiple 
> disks....yet.

With amanda it is not the backup software, tar or dump, that is
responsible for putting the image onto the tape.  So I don't
think multi-tape options would be usable nor of benefit.

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