>... I am not very familiar with the setup you are
>talking about. Do you know where I can find some docs and references to
>this kind of setup? ...
I don't think it's really documented anyplace.
The idea is that if your file system is named /some/big/filesystem and it
contains sudirectories sub1, sub2 and sub3 that instead of just listing
/some/big/filesystem in disklist you would instead enter each one:
the-client /some/big/filesystem/sub1 the-dumptype
the-client /some/big/filesystem/sub2 the-dumptype
the-client /some/big/filesystem/sub3 the-dumptype
The idea/hope is that the individual subdirectories are smaller than a
tape and so Amanda will not have to split them.
Note that if you have "too many" file systems, you may overflow the UDP
packet size Amanda uses. That can be changed in the source from 8 KBytes
to 64 KBytes in common-src/dgram.h (symbol MAX_DGRAM). You'll need to
do a complete rebuild of both client and server. The value is already
changed to this at 2.4.2.
You might also look at:
ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/gtar-wrapper.*
for another way of breaking up a large parent area.
Note that you have to use GNU tar for this, and that has "issues", like
the access time for all backed up files will be altered. You should
also probably avoid version 1.13.* as it's known to have lots of problems
with Amanda. Use 1.12 and apply the patches at www.amanda.org.
>Sherrill
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
