John,
Thanks for your further comments.
>>Thanks. Yes I have upgraded to 2.4.2p2 (the advfs.patch is not
>>applicable).
>
>The advfs.patch does more than just fix problems with advfs. It also
>deals with some Linux LABEL= issues in /etc/fstab. It may still not
>apply to your setup, but just in case.
I am running Solaris-8. So the advfs patch really is not relevant.
>>My reading of the amanda man page for runtapes is that it it only
>>applicable when using a tape changer, which we are not.
>
>You can use chg-manual to emulate a changer with a human.
Ahhh. Perhaps that's the way to go. I'll investigate. Also I will
copy amdump to amdump0 and edit to stop at the planner output stage
to speed up the testing cycle!
>>>Aside from not doing incrementals,
>>>what did you expect Amanda to do with the dumps that would not fit on
>>>your single tape? Defer them until the next run?
>>
>>Yes. I hope to do a run once a week each of which does a full
>>backup of 20-25% of the filesystems. Is this feasible?
>
>I think you're going to have to split your configuration up by hand
>into groups of clients/disks that fit on a single tape. Or else use
>chg-manual.
I really don't want to split my clients into groups like that. I
see one of the great advantages of Amanda as letting it handle which
filesystems to dump on which tapes.
>>I am running 2.4.2p2 with strategy noinc but amstatus output appears
>>to show incrementals :-(.
>
>You've backed Amanda into a corner by not giving it enough tape to do
>what you insist it does. It's doing the best it can :-).
How do others archive a set of large filesystems onto a set of small
tapes?
>I'd need to see the planner section of amdump.NN to dig more into why
>strategy noinc didn't do as expected.
To avoid cloging the amanda mailing-list, I have put this on my
website:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~julian/amdump.20010417
Thanks
Julian
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