RE: dumps spanning tapes

The next level of this (which I thought was very interesting) would be to
allow AMANDA to write chunks of backups as they become available, without
waiting for an entire DLE to be ready. This would allow the tape to start
writing almost immediately, an advantage for sites with lots of large DLEs.




Sort of near-topic...

Regarding a DLE producing a very large dumpfile... What is theexperience of those that have added a * in order to file expand (oris it regex?) the directory names in /home directory? Would this havethe effect of making the amdump run shorter?

There was a resolution to the restorability issue, I think with a small
package of tools at the beginning of each tape, but I'm not sure.

would this not also have the side effect of more specific selectionpossibilities, and hence shorter time to restoration?

( Not suggesting that this will solve anyone's problems, I amsoliciting experiences of those that did this and were also payingclose attention :)


thank you...
DK