On Friday 07 November 2003 18:44, Fran Fabrizio wrote: >Our group is thinking of purchasing a Qualstar TLS-5433 SAIT > library. From the documentation I've read, Amanda supports some, > but not all, changers/robots. Will this be a supported model? > >Also, the following excerpt from the Amanda chapter of the Unix > Backup And Recovery book has me a bit concerned: > >"AMANDA supports using more than one tape in a single run, but does > not yet split a dump image across tapes. This also means it does > not support dump images larger than a single tape." > >"Does not yet split a dump image across tapes." I assume "dump > image" = one "unit" or partition to be backed up. /home for > example. So if /home is larger than the size of a single tape, do > I then need to subdivide /home into say /home/faculty and > /home/students in order to backup successfully? I'm just a little > fuzzy on what exactly an "image" is. (Sorry, new on the job and to > sysadmin in general)
As an overview, you have it understood ok I think. The only caveat is that dump cannot do a subdir tree. But tar works just fine provided the version is at least 1.13-19, with 1.13-25 being the prefered flavor these days. If your tar --version says its just 1.13, its busted, goto ftp.alpha.org and get the newer one. >Thanks, >Fran -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.