On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:52:12PM -0800, Steven Sweet wrote:
> The FAQ answer for "Can Amanda span large filesystems across multiple 
> tapes" is still "Not Yet".  Is this also true for 2.5.0p1?
> 
> I know single dumpfile images can now span multiple tapes, and the 
> chunksize parameter will split dumpfiles into multiple pieces smaller 
> than the partitions.  But is it correct that all the chunks for a given 
> partition must still be written to the same tape?  I can't get Amanda to 
> successfully dump to more than one tape any partition larger than the 
> tape size, even though I can see the individual chunk files on the 
> holding disk.
> 
> I'm testing trying to dump a single 25 GB partition to 16 GB tapes.  I 
> have my chunksize set 1.6GB and number of tapes per run 2.  Amanda still 
> fails with "No space left on device".
> 

"chunksize" is strictly a holding disk parameter.  Has no affect
on the spanning.  There are a new set of dumptype parameters
dealing with tape spanning.  I don't have 2.5 running yet,
but they parameters should be documented in your new manpages
for amanda.conf.


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