Hello Oliver On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 09:19 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > > How can i tell amanda to split it up in 4500MB slices and write them one > > by one to DVD-RAM? > > Make them several DLEs. That means you must use GNU tar, not dump and > you must identify sub-hierarchies, from that too big disk, that will > match your 4.5 GB limit. Time to play with exclude file list. So you are saying i should loock for ~4GB directories tar them instead to dump them?
> > That said, your tapelist shows 4350 MB, why making chuncks of 4500MB? > You may well be facing the same problem again... I thought amanda can split such big backup archives up in serveral parts. I doubt that someone will backup up a 200GB System onto one single tape. A Backup onto DVD would then never be possile??? Thanks, Mario