Directory too large for single tape.
2006-09-11 02:04:08
I've been using Amanda for about five years now. The only problems I've
ever had are because a single dumps has to fit on a single tape. I
usually solved this by using tar, client side compression, and breaking
up the partitions into smaller chunks. However, I seem to have reached
a limit.
One of my Oracle RMAN backups now stands at 109G. Even with compression
this requires 44G to 45G of space and will not fit on an AIT-2 tape.
The backups are dumped into a single directory and I don't know of any
way to split a directory with no subdirectories into two dumps. If
there is, I'd appreciate knowing how. Any other sugesstions are welcome.
I'm using:
build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.5"
BUILT_DATE="Fri Jul 22 07:36:58 PDT 2005"
BUILT_MACH="Linux amazon.totalflood.com 2.6.11-1.35_FC3smp #1
SMP Mon Jun 13 01:17:35 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux"
CC="gcc"
CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure' '--with-user=amanda'
'--with-group=adm'"
paths: bindir="/usr/local/bin" sbindir="/usr/local/sbin"
libexecdir="/usr/local/libexec" mandir="/usr/local/man"
AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda" AMANDA_DBGDIR="/tmp/amanda"
CONFIG_DIR="/usr/local/etc/amanda" DEV_PREFIX="/dev/"
RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP="/sbin/dump"
RESTORE="/sbin/restore" VDUMP=UNDEF VRESTORE=UNDEF
XFSDUMP=UNDEF XFSRESTORE=UNDEF VXDUMP=UNDEF VXRESTORE=UNDEF
SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient" GNUTAR="/bin/gtar"
COMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip" UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip"
LPRCMD="/usr/bin/lpr" MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail"
listed_incr_dir="/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists"
defs: DEFAULT_SERVER="amazon.totalflood.com"
DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"
DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="amazon.totalflood.com"
DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM
LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE
AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY USE_AMANDAHOSTS
CLIENT_LOGIN="amanda" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP
COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"
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