On 2006-10-04 00:34, Alan Pearson wrote:

When I do this, amcheck warns that I _must_ use a changer...

So how to do this without a changer ?

You run amanda, and want one run to not exceed 1 DVD?
Then just set runtapes 1, and tapesize to the size of
your DVD.  I doubt that is what you want, because 4.7 Gbyte
backups are not happening in real life (at least once in
a while you need a full backup).

Note that there exist "changers" that work on virtual
tapes on disk:  chg-disk and chg-multi can both do what
you want (without bying any hardware, if that is what
you believe is blocking here).

See: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/File_driver

On 2 Oct 2006, at 20:18, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote:

runtapes in amanda.conf must be greater than 1 for splitting backup images.

See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes

Paddy

On 10/2/06, mario <ml AT bortal DOT de> wrote:

Hello List,

i would like to backup to DVD-RAM and therefore split my backups into
4GB pieces.

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