On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:35:17PM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
> I am running Amanda on a network that I administer. I don't have a lot
> of Amanda experience, having always used afio scripts that I wrote. I
> inherited this backup config and am trying to get up to speed on it. I
> see several of these messages stating that the dump is being delayed.
> Obviously I want to ensure that the dump eventually makes it to tape. Is
> there an amanda command to tell me this? 
> 
> planner: Dump larger than tape: full dump of
> +mymachine:/home delayed.

Amanda has a hard and fast rule - at least for now.
Every entitiy that is being backed up, called in
amanda terminology a DiskList Entry (DLE) must
fit onto the backup medium.

Thus, that DLE, mymachine:/home, will never be
backed up in its present configuration.

A common way to handle the situation is to
split /home into multiple DLE's, maybe
/home/[a-g]*, /home/[h-n]*, ...

See many past postings about doing this with
gnutar.  There are also examples in the
disklist example file.

jl
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