I'd imagine the work area was an issue too, for writing.


On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:30:30PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 05:11:50PM -0400, lois AT zmanda DOT com wrote:
> > Hi, everyone -
> > 
> > I would like to suggest an update for the answer to the Size Question, one
> > of the top ten questions at http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html. I have
> > also seen this question on the Zmanda forums; that is, how to make a
> > single dump image aka disk list entry span multiple tapes. Traditionally,
> > the answer is that you can't.
> > 
> > As of Amanda 2.5, a single dump image can now span multiple tapes. To
> > quote Chander Kant from Zmanda, describing the new features list:
> > 
> > ------->8-------
> > 
> > Dump images spanning multiple media volumes:
> > 
> > This major step forward alleviates Amanda's most significant limitation.
> > The size of the backed up images is no longer restricted to a single media
> > volume but may now span over several volumes. This gets rid of the need of
> > the administrator to artificially segment their data into parts which can
> > fit into a single media volume (as required in prior versions of Amanda).
> > 
> > ------->8-------
> > 
> > No more manually splitting up the DLEs.
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > Best regards,
> 
> And no more simple recovery of spanned dumps using
> standard unix tools when amanda is not available.
> That needs to be pointed out in any revision.
> 
> 
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