After much experimentation I have finally succesfully created an amanda backup. But I have not been able to figure if these features are possible.
1) I currently have enabled 4 dumps at a time. What I understand this meaning is the option inparallel does 4 cleint dumps at a time. If I have a disklist of 18 disk does that mean that all 18 disk get backed up to one tape or does that mean that every 4 disk get backed up to tape. 2) When sendszie is executed to estimate how big a directory or disk is is it possible to have sendzie work with the process that dumps to tape to judge if a directory is to big for that tape and load another tape for that backup 3) Is it possible just to do fiolesize estimateions before issueing amdump. What I am trying to accomplish is to do estimations and have amdump pick up were it left off to save time. 4) In regards to number 1 to elevate this problem I have been doing amdump "configureationname" partition. I am doing this for each disk in my disk list is it possible to have certain disk go to one tape and then push otehr disk to go on the second tape. Thanks for all your help Craig Hancock -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9P+Y5awsElDuSDs0RAgxoAJ40NBfXWSP5dwsRK6AWZRXP6fNm+wCgpWf4 MwLEwsq3TDVGR8ntq3+w65k= =qTeY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----