Yes indeed.  The whole DLE.  A singe DLE still needs to be written
in one run, possibly using many tapes.

Oh no... Like I said, that's a big disappointment. I'm tempted to say that it is not correct to claim that Amanda now suppots tape spanning, if it can't span dumps across tapes written in separate runs.

Shouldn't it be able to delete the corresponding data from the holding disk file as tape-chunks are successfully written - so that only the remaining chunks would be flushed on the next run? Seems like this should be easy enough to implement, especially if you interact with holding disk chunks in a constructive manner. Is there any reason why nobody has looked into this, except for lack of time?

- Toralf