OK, thanks to both.
Of course I knew that really :-) At least I had considered it when I set up
the backup regime in the first place. For some reason I had forgotten it
and got it into my head that the limit was that a tar archive couldn't span
a tape.
Gareth

Christoph Scheeder <christoph.scheeder AT scheeder DOT de> wrote on 15/01/2003
10:44:39:

> Hi,
> that is one of the limitations at the moment:
> amanda can not spann a single archiv over multiple tapes.
> You'll have to use exlucelists to split your big partition into
> multiple smaler ones, preferably smaler than half of the capacity
> of a single tape.
> Christoph
>