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

2006-08-08 08:45:36
Subject: Re: dump larger than tape, 30864683 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk
From: mario <ml AT bortal DOT de>
To: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:36:17 +0200
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 06:34 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 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. 
Which chapter is that? I could not find it with: lynx -dump
http://www.amanda.org/docs/index.html | grep -i spann


Cheers, Mario