Amanda-Users

Re: dump larger than tape, 30864683 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk

2006-08-08 06:40:50
Subject: Re: dump larger than tape, 30864683 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: mario <ml AT bortal DOT de>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 06:34:18 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 at 11:51am, mario wrote

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.

You're looking for the tape spanning feature, which is explained in the docs. There's also been a lot of discussion recently regarding backups to DVDs -- look through the list archives.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University