On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 04:04:46PM +0530, Rohit wrote:
> Thanks for your response and sorry for not giving you enough
> information before hand. I managed to get past this error, I
> have another question though :)
> 
> I have various shares on the servers which are close to
> 10 GB to 25 GB of data on each share. What I have is
> 12/24 GB HP-DAT drive. How does amanda handle full backups
> in this case? Does it split the image across two different
> tapes?

Amanda deals with "disk list entries" (DLEs) these could be
an entire file system/shares backed up by a file system dump
program (system specific) or by gnutar.  A DLE could also
be a partial file system/share starting at some directory
under the top level.  These can only be backed up by gnutar.

The limitation is that the backup image (after compression
if used) must fit on a single tape.  If the backup image of
a DLE is larger than a tape, then the administrator must
split the single DLE into multiple DLE's.  See the sample
disklist in the examples directory of your amanda source.


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