Amanda-Users

Re: Using Amanda without a tape changer

2003-05-22 14:47:25
Subject: Re: Using Amanda without a tape changer
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
To: Per von Zweigbergk <pvz AT linux DOT se>, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 14:42:27 -0400
On Thursday 22 May 2003 14:02, Per von Zweigbergk wrote:
>torsdagen den 22 maj 2003 kl 19.30 skrev Joshua Baker-LePain:
>> On Thu, 22 May 2003 at 7:23pm, Per von Zweigbergk wrote
>>
>>> One last issue. Am I correct in saying that the best way to
>>> circumvent the limintation of Amanda not being able to split
>>> filesystem dumps across tapes, is to make sure that the
>>> partitions only are about 50 GB?
>>> (With 72 GB tapes.) So, basically, have several seperate home
>>> partitions...
>>
>> *Or* you can use tar as your backup program and just specify
>> subdirectories of the partitions, i.e. /home/user1, /home/user2,
>> etc are
>> all separate DLEs.
>
>What's a DLE? :-)

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