On Tuesday 19 April 2005 12:24, Thomas Grieder wrote:
>Brian Cuttler wrote:
>> The problem is that amanda does not (currently) allow a DLE
>> (DiskList Entry) to span tapes.
>>
>> The fully functional method is to configure amanda to use TAR
>> (only specific versions work properly) rather than the native
>> DUMP utility to dump the DLE.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:05:27PM +0400, Thomas Grieder wrote:
>
>Wow, that was fast!
>
>You mean the program part in dumptypes?
>
>Ther I have GNUTAR
>
>Thomas
First, make sure that the PATH known by the amanda user contains the 
tar.

Second, make sure the tar is either 1.13-19, 1.13-25, or 1.15-1.  
These are known to work correctly with amanda.

Third, tar works in a relative path manner when recursing through 
directory trees.  This means that one can give it a starting path 
that is not the root directory of the filesystem.

It is by this mechanism that trees too large for a single tape can be 
broken down into tape sized pieces.  It does make for a lot of 
entries in the disklist file, but thats not a consideration with 
amanda that any of us have become aware of, and amanda has been and 
is being used by some very large entities.

>
>P.S. Sorry for PM

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