Amanda-Users

Re: Multi-tape backups

2003-04-07 19:45:59
Subject: Re: Multi-tape backups
From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix AT structbio.vanderbilt DOT edu>
To: "Jonathan B. Bayer" <jbayer AT bayerfamily DOT net>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 17:29:32 -0500
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 04:48:06PM -0400, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:
> 
> Hello amanda-users,
> 
> It is my understanding that Amanda cannot span tapes when doing a
> backup.
> 
> I'm curious as to what people are doing when they have a backup which
> will span more than one tape.

Two options:

1) Break the directory up into smaller disklist entries by subdirectory,
each of which will fit on a tape.

OR

2) RAIT.

Brandon D. Valentine
-- 
Systems Administrator
Center for Structural Biology
Vanderbilt University

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