On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:44:11AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:

> It's not as simple.  The header of a file on tape is a little
> different than the header of a file in the holdingdisk.
> E.g. a file in the holdingdisk has provisions to indicate that
> it is chunked.  A file on tape is never chunked.
> I'm not sure what is done with a very large dump and the
> file driver; is it assumed that the filesystem to hold file-dumps
> can handle large files?  (Too early in the morning to understand the
> sources :-) )
> 

 Hello,

i use the file driver (and later burn DVD+RW) and my backups are only
chunked in the holding disk dir.  When a backup is completed it is
written as _one_ large file from the file driver.

(I know for sure, because my shell script to burn DVD has to run split
on larger files before DVD Image preparing using mkisofs which has a
2GB limit :-))

  Ciao
    Dietmar
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