On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:09:44PM -0500, Vytas Janusauskas wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I am trying to backup about 20 Windows (Win95/Win98/Nt6) computers using 
> Amanda version 2.4.2p2.
> 
> 
> Looking at the Google listings it would seem to fail due to the holding 
> disk which has 26 Gigabytes of free space does not support images greater 
> than 2 Gigabytes in size.  The holding disk type is ext2.  What do I have 
> to do to allow me to backup larger chunks to tape? 
                                     ^^^^^^
Interesting you should use that term.

Check out the chunksize parameter in amanda.conf.
Set it less than 2GB.
1GB is a nice convenient number.
But so are 512MB
or 256MB or ...
And some even do 2000MB rather than binary 2048MB

jl
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