On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:11:03AM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
> I'm so happy with Amanda that when an error occurs and a partition fails to 
> dump, I just wait a day or two and it's usually corrected. Maybe this is more 
> correctly labeled "laziness." However, I just noticed that the main web 
> directory on my main web server hasn't been backed up in a week, and I've 
> lost the level 0 backup. Now, I'm worried.
> 
> Both my tape backup Amanda server and the web server are 'www.' The web 
> directory is pretty large:
> amanda@www:/etc/amanda/Outside$ df -h /var/www/
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda8              18G   14G  4.3G  76% /var/www
> amanda@www:/etc/amanda/Outside$ 
> 
> I was trying to back up this partition as a whole, using no compression and 
> 'dump' but it often complained that it was too large. I'm backing up to DDS-3 
> tapes, without hardware compression, on a Sony SDT-10000 drive built into my 
> Dell PowerEdge 2450 server. Here's the version information:

DDS-3 tapes hold a maximum of 12G!

Gonna be tough to meet amandas requirement
that a DLE fits on a single tape
if the DLE is 14G and you do not compress.

jl
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