On Wednesday 17 December 2003 09:43, Axel Haenssen wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>I have this file-server that is used by many indisciplined  users
> :-) Frequently they create directories that are bigger than a
> single tape (20Gb) and the nightly backup fails with error:
>[dump larger than tape, skipping incremental]
>Now my question. Can Amanda just descent into those directories and
>backup parts on one tape and other parts on other tapes????
>cheers
>Axel

Amanda can, but you must use tar, not dump, and tell amanda about them 
before hand with entries in the disklist.

You can either name each subdir on each line, or I've seen some 
examples posted here that used pattern matching to select them.

In that event, you probably will want to extend the dumpcycle, 
runspercycle and tapecycle to give amanda time to get a balance 
established with the new disklist.  If after a couple of dumpcycles 
it then, from the reports you get, indicates it can do with less, 
reduce dumpcycle by one day.  Let it 'balance'.  Repeat if 
nessessary. :-)

Here, my tapes are pretty small at 4Gb, so I like to try and keep any 
one disklist entry well below 1gb because smaller allows amanda to do  
better balancing between runs.  My tape fill percentages run in the 
middle 90's because I have reduced my tapetype size enough (to 
3.57Gb) to leave room for a tar file of all the indices and configs 
that actually made that tape, put on the end of the tape after amdump 
has completed its nightly run.  By recovering that, I can do a bare 
metal recovery equipt with a full set of indexes and configs.

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