> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does amanda have any support for backing up a filesystem which is *much*
> > bigger than the tape?
> > 
> > I have a 500GB fileststem and my tapes are 33GB (Ecrix V17).  What does
> > one do in a case like this...?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dick
> > 
> > P.S. In case you are wondering (and haven't guessed), the filesystem
> > spans multiple drives using Linux LVM.
> 
> Gee, 15 tapes minimum for one file system.
> Are you sure the tape recording speed is sufficiently fast
> to allow writing that much data between scheduled amdump's?
> ISTR that most tape formats take about 3 hrs to write a full tape.
> At that rate it would take 45 hrs for that one FS.
> 
> The basic way is to use gnutar as the backup program and NOT back up
> the entire FS, but create a series of disklist entries which back up
> a sub-tree of the total system.  For example if your big FS mounts as
> /big_mama, and has subdirs of /big_mama/proj1, /big_mama/proj2, ...
> you could specifiy a separate DLE for each "projx" directory tree.

It's videos and they are 1G to 5G each all in one directory.  The
program which creates them (mythtv) gives them files names which are
numbers, so they are not as easy to divide into categories like you
suggest, but I'm sure there is a way.

I am mostly trying to confirm that amanda does not handle it with some
neat feature I am not aware of.  I will have to come up with some kluge
in this case (like the one you are suggesting), but I didn't want to if
amanda had some biult-in facility to handle it.

Thanks,
Dick