On 2006-04-04 10:38, Paul Haldane wrote:

Definite progress. Dump completed OK so it looks like that patch does the trick. However ...

Taping of the dump started and ran to end of the first tape.  Then changed to 
next tape and started taping the dump again from the start (and failed when it 
ran out of tape) - extract from log at end.  That isn't what I was expecting - 
I thought that 2.5.x allowed for spanning dumps over tapes.

Is there anything I need to add to the config to make this happen - I think 
I've been through the relevant bits of the docs and didn't spot anything.  A 
_very_ quick scan of taper.c seemed to indicate that this should just work (and 
I'm just checked that the system is using the 2.5.0 taper - start of amdump log 
says ...
  taper: pid 17514 executable taper version 2.5.0)

See amanda.conf, dumptype section:
You should create a special dumptype for those DLE's that you allow
to split on tape, and set these three values:

  tapesplit_size
  split_diskbuffer
  fallback_splitsize

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda.conf#DUMPTYPE_SECTION



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