* The Hermit Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:26:09PM -0400)
> If i have a file system that is, when compressed, larger then my tape
> size, what happens? from what I read, it can't span a file system across
> two tapes, but I might be mis-remembering what I read ...
If you're lucky, (and your holdingdisk is big enough) amanda will dump to
the holding disk instead.
Then dump from holding disk to new tape.
(which will only work if you have a tape somewhere that's big enough.
Otherwise, use gnutar (and a modified sendsize [1] ) to back up the big disk
in smaller blocks.
(iso
/bigdisk comp-user
specify
/bigdisk/dir1 comp-user-tar
/bigdisk/dir2 comp-user-tar
/bigdisk/dir3 comp-user-tar
/bigdisk/dir4 comp-user-tar
/bigdisk/dirN comp-user-tar
in your disklist.
[1] gnutar takes forever to estimate , I hacked sendsize to use the
calcsize executable (the patch can be found on the egroups searchable
archive)
Gerhard, <@jasongeo.com> == The Acoustic Motorbiker ==
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