On Mon April 7 2003 16:48, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:
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>Hello amanda-users,
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>It is my understanding that Amanda cannot span tapes when doing a
>backup.
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>I'm curious as to what people are doing when they have a backup
> which will span more than one tape.

Use tar, and break the disklist entries into subdirs that are 
smaller than a tape.  Actually, I try to keep mine smaller than 
half a tape, but with DDS2 tapes (3.8gb capacity) that does get 
hard to make happen 100% of the time.

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