Re: Potential problem ... ? file system too big for tape?

[Gerhard den Hollander]

* The Hermit Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:26:09PM -0400)

> If i have a file system that is, when compressed, larger then my tape
> size, what happens?  from what I read, it can't span a file system across
> two tapes, but I might be mis-remembering what I read ...

If you're lucky, (and your holdingdisk is big enough) amanda will dump to
the holding disk instead.
Then dump from holding disk to new tape.

(which will only work if you have a tape somewhere that's big enough.

Otherwise, use gnutar (and a modified sendsize [1] ) to back up the big disk
in smaller blocks.

(iso
/bigdiskcomp-user
specify
/bigdisk/dir1   comp-user-tar
/bigdisk/dir2   comp-user-tar
/bigdisk/dir3   comp-user-tar
/bigdisk/dir4   comp-user-tar
/bigdisk/dirN   comp-user-tar

in your disklist.


[1] gnutar takes forever to estimate , I hacked sendsize to use the
calcsize executable (the patch can be found on the egroups searchable
archive)

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Potential problem ... ? file system too big for tape?

[The Hermit Hacker]

If i have a file system that is, when compressed, larger then my tape
size, what happens?  from what I read, it can't span a file system across
two tapes, but I might be mis-remembering what I read ...



Marc G. Fournier   ICQ#7615664   IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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Re: Potential problem ... ? file system too big for tape?

[John R. Jackson]

>If i have a file system that is, when compressed, larger then my tape
>size, what happens?  from what I read, it can't span a file system across
>two tapes, but I might be mis-remembering what I read ...

You're not mis-remembering.  Amanda cannot handle this yet.  I have
started on the project to add this, but don't hold your breath.  Stupid
things keep coming up at work and I'm lucky if I get a few minutes of
coding time a day.

>Marc G. Fournier

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]