Hi John, > I read both the Netatalk and Amanda mailing lists, so can provide more > Amanda information if you want. We use it heavily here and I happen to > be one of the developers. if you will help this will be great. > Configuration can get confusing. Make sure you read docs/INSTALL before > going too far. Also, there is a chapter about Amanda in a Nutshell book, > and it's online at: > > http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html > > And you should look at www.amanda.org. In particular, there are patches > to the 2.4.1p1 release specific to Linux. Definetly I will read everything very close :) > >... But someone is > >telling on his site, that AMANDA cannot split a full backup over > >multiple tapes, on which I am not sure if it's true? We use a Sony AIT > >with 25GB tape drivew (native size) but our raid array is still 70GB big. > > Amanda cannot split any single dump image across multiple tapes (yet). > A dump image is usually a file system. > > First, is the raid array 70 GBytes of capacity or in use? > Second, is it a single file system or is it split into multiple entries? It is a RAID-Mirror in a seperate Tower with 8 x 18GB HD. Mounted on a folder called "/mac" > Since you're using Linux, you will **not** want to use the dump program > for backups (it's known to have numerous problems). So you'll want to > use GNU tar instead. That, in turn, leads to the usual solution for file > systems that are larger than a tape, which is to break them apart and do > subsets. For instance, if you have /disk that is too large, you can tell > Amanda, via GNU tar, to back up /disk/subdir1, /disk/subdir2 and so on. I thought GNU tar has a problem with these very long path names!? This I think will be the second major problem. They are using an very deep path structure! > However that might be painful depending on how your raid array is > filled in. If you'll send me some more information, I'll be glad to > try and help you set it up. Thank you, Uwe
