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In a message dated: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:48:56 EDT Benjamin Scott said: > Okay, I went back and checked, and I was remembering wrong. It was not >that Amanda requires using the holding disk, it was that Amanda cannot span >a filesystem across tapes. I just went and double-checked my notes, and >there is a FAQ entry to back me up: > > http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/32.html > > Am I understanding this wrong? No, you're not. That's correct. However, if you have a single file system smaller than one tape, that's not a problem. Also, you can use Gnu tar such that you back up directory hierarchies separately, and therefore don't need to have the file system span tapes. One tape contains some directories, overflow rolls to the subsequent tapes. For example, if you have a 100GB fs, and you're using DLT IV tapes which only take about 80GB compressed, rather than using dump to dump the entire file system, have amanda use gnu tar to dump separate directories. That way you can prune things down to workable sizes. Most of the people on the amanda-users list do things this way, especially since Linus has more than once stated that people shouldn't rely upon dump, and that it will someday suddenly disappear. >But I was hoping to find something that someone here has actually used, >though. :-) Geeez! You want everything! ;) - -- Seeya, Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 (debian 2.2-1) iD8DBQE8wGekuweSOVPxKO4RAuXKAJ92y7zNd/aEI9ztD3POGqsx8Wu6wwCfaAG0 fXamwNm4mzjMrlfpDF0p850= =LLPM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
