On 2006-12-13 11:08, imacat wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:09:14 +0100 (CET)
> "Marc Muehlfeld" <Marc.Muehlfeld AT medizinische-genetik DOT de> wrote:
>> Marc Muehlfeld schrieb:
>>> Amanda is filling tapes almost to 100% with this option, but if I want to
>>> backup a mountpoint that is compressed larger then the space of an empty
>>> tape, I get a "Dump larger than available tape space"-Error.
>
> As far as I know, it is not possible to dump a disk that is larger
> than the tape "after compress". The split-tape only span multiple-tapes
> on the boundary of each individual resulted dump file. It won't split
> the resulted dump file itself. A compressed dump result has to be
> entirely on one tape.
Amanda can do that since 2.5.0, more than a year old now.
See: http://wiki.zmanda.org/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes
>
> This is due to the fact that Amanda is a manager/wrapper of complex
> tar operations. It does not do binary things like splitting files at
> all.
Well, actually, it does :-)
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