I'm current looking into Amanda and planning on using it with a Compaq 8 tape 20/40 DAt autoloader. From what I can see Amanda does not support spanning a backup onto multiple tapes. What do I do to make a backup that uses all 8 tapes? I suppose I could split it into 8 seperate backups - how would I go about this?Andre
Also: I anybody has any experience with one of these autoloaders any help would be highly appreciated.
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amanda won't span a single backup extent across tapes, but will span complete daily backups over tapes.
ie if you backup /usr/local and it's bigger than a single tape it won't span. but if your config has multiple disk's mentioned it will span the whole archive over many tapes.
you can get around this by using gnutar as the underlying backup medium and splitting the individual partitions up so they will fit onto a tape.,
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