Hi 

Just read the following about amanda?

"Amanda can not back up filesystems that are larger than the tape will
fit" 

Amanda can not back up filesystems that are larger than the tape will
fit. I. e. Amanda can not span tapes. It is unclear whether this is a
bug or a feature. :-) Allowing spanning would make it difficult to
perform backup recovery with standard UNIX tools, i. e. without using
Amanda. One workaround is to make sure that all file systems are smaller
than the tape capacity. Another is to ask Amanda to back up individual
large directories as seperate Disk List Entries (DLEs). This can AFAIK
only be done using tar, not using dump.

One tape per day, 5 (week)days per week. We were doing all level zeros,
but one of the filesystems has grown too big to do this, so now we're
doing incrementals as well, with a level zero every other day for each
filesystem:

Thus time to look at the exclude list.

Cheers

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 16:26 +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> server.domain.co.uk:/ 0 planner: [dump larger than tape, 2866960 KB, but
> cannot incremental dump new disk]
> 
> I had changed the disklist from "/etc" to "/" and run amdump
> 
> #disklist file
> #server.domain.co.uk / comp-root-tar #Thought I was using tar.
> 
> and I get the above error.
> 
> Whats the best to tackle this still using DSS-4 150mm DAT tapes.
> and how to cannot incremental dump new disk as above error.
> 
> Thus can I change from dump to tar
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
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