>My problem is very 'simple'...
How many times have I heard that opening line ... :-)
>I have to dump 13 GB using 2 GB tapes.
Here are some thoughts in addition to the good comments from Paul Lussier.
First, keep in mind that no image can (yet) be larger than a tape.
So you must keep your disklist entries under 2 GBytes. If the disks
are larger, you'll have to use GNU tar and back up subdirectories of
the mount point. This is covered (often :-) in this mailing list,
so look through the archives. I think there are also FAQ items about it.
Once you have that in place, it might be that Amanda won't need more
than one tape per run, depending on how much data changes at your site
and how often. The first pass will take some time to get done as it all
has to be full dumps, but after that the sum of the incrementals for a
given day (plus some fulls) may fit fine on 2 GBytes.
If not, and you don't have a hardware tape changer, you can configure
Amanda to use chg-manual which is a human operated changer. If amdump
is going to be run from cron, see the comments in the chg-manual script
for how to have it communicate with whoever is going to change the tapes
during a run.
>Vicent.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
