Madhvi Gokool wrote:

I have a18G filesystem that needs to be backed up and do not have a tape
changer.  I have tried the following :-
[...]
When I run amdump WeeklySet1, it asks me to load tapes repeatedly.

Fine, just as expected.  But does it make any backups?
Or what exactly is your problem?

Since 2 tapes of 12G should be enough for the backup ( no hardware
compression and using tar) , I am not sure what I'm doing wrong.
can anyone help me with this config???

In the normal way of using amanda, you don't need chg-manual to
backup a large disk.
You could divide your big filesystem in smaller subdirectories,
use a dumpcycle of several days, and spread the full backups over
each run.  Together with the incrementals, you can always restore
up to the last day.

See in docs/disklist for the last example how split up a large
directory.

Apology if this is not an answer to your question.


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