Amanda-Users

Re: Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-21 12:09:20
Subject: Re: Backup plan and big filesystems
From: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:37:49 +0200
On 2006-08-21 17:07, Cyrille Bollu wrote:

owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org a écrit sur 21/08/2006 16:45:18 :

[ ??? owner-amanda-users ???  I believe the quoting is wrong ]

 >
 > But if I stick with just one big GFS fs, I think I will have just one
 > DLE and then Amanda will take care to span the tar volume into multiple
 > tapes, when it receives an end-of-media message. Please correct me :-)

Yes, but AFAIK that's a rather new feature that doesn't look easy to set up (that's my stupid newbie opinion :-).


define dumptype comp-tar-split {
    comp-tar
    tape_splitsize 1g
    split_diskbuffer "/space/amandahold"
    fallback_splitsize 256m
}


And voila...  That's enough.


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