Hello Oliver

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 09:19 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > How can i tell amanda to split it up in 4500MB slices and write them one
> > by one to DVD-RAM?
> 
> Make them several DLEs. That means you must use GNU tar, not dump and
> you must identify sub-hierarchies, from that too big disk, that will
> match your 4.5 GB limit. Time to play with exclude file list.
So you are saying i should loock for ~4GB directories tar them instead
to dump them?

> 
> That said, your tapelist shows 4350 MB, why making chuncks of 4500MB?
> You may well be facing the same problem again...

I thought amanda can split such big backup archives up in serveral
parts. I doubt that someone will backup up a 200GB System onto one
single tape.

A Backup onto DVD would then never be possile???

Thanks, Mario