On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Johan Booysen <johan AT matrix-data.co DOT uk> 
wrote:
> with regards to Amanda version 2.5.x, does Amanda kind of automatically do
> tape spanning, or does this need to be configured somewhere?

By default, no, it won't do spanning.  See
  http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes
for the skinny on setting it up.

> I'm testing a newer version, and was just wondering...haven't really touched
> Amanda for more than a year because it never breaks...

Amanda's great that way!

Dustin

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