On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:28:42PM -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Kurt Yoder wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK it will hit end of tape and ask for another tape. However,
> > there is no way to flush a single dump image to multiple tapes. So
> > if you have a 20 GB dump image (even if it's been split up into
> > pieces due to the chunksize parameter) and a 10 GB tape, there is no
> > way to put the dump image on that tape.
> 
> 
> Does this strike anyone besides me as dumb?  Yes I've known these
> details separately for years, but when they are put together in
> the same paragraph it jumps out and says "Hey, the dump has already
> been split into managable-sized pieces.  All we need is to modify
> taper to put them on multiple tapes and voila, we can span tapes!"
> 
> Of course then we'd need to do some fiddling with amrestore to be
> able to retrieve all the chunks during a restore...

On another mailing list I think the acronynm is PCABM *




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