Thanks Jon. I tried to create DLE in disklist file but failed. 
What exactly is the syntax of creating DLE?

<hostname> <share> <what_is_this_param?> {
    dumptype
    exclude or include list etc. 

} 1

Thanks a lot again!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon LaBadie" <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: Help


> 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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