Re: Directory too large for single tape.

2006-09-13 Thread Stephen Carville
Ian Turner wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 01:48, Stephen Carville wrote: I've been using Amanda for about five years now. The only problems I've ever had are because a single dumps has to fit on a single tape. If you upgrade to Amanda 2.5.x, then you can instruct Amanda to split dumps

Re: Directory too large for single tape.

2006-09-13 Thread Stephen Carville
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 10:48:08PM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote: I've been using Amanda for about five years now. The only problems I've ever had are because a single dumps has to fit on a single tape. I usually solved this by using tar, client side compression, and

Re: Directory too large for single tape.

2006-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 at 6:59am, Stephen Carville wrote Ian Turner wrote: If you upgrade to Amanda 2.5.x, then you can instruct Amanda to split dumps across tapes; so you can make your partitions as large as you like, and just use as many tapes as are required. AFAICT, this doesn't really

Re: Directory too large for single tape.

2006-09-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-09-13 15:59, Stephen Carville wrote: Ian Turner wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 01:48, Stephen Carville wrote: I've been using Amanda for about five years now. The only problems I've ever had are because a single dumps has to fit on a single tape. If you upgrade to Amanda

Re: Directory too large for single tape.

2006-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 07:07:52AM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 10:48:08PM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote: I've been using Amanda for about five years now. The only problems I've ever had are because a single dumps has to fit on a single tape. I

Re: Directory too large for single tape.

2006-09-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 September 2006 01:48, Stephen Carville wrote: I've been using Amanda for about five years now. The only problems I've ever had are because a single dumps has to fit on a single tape. I usually solved this by using tar, client side compression, and breaking up the partitions into

Re: Directory too large for single tape.

2006-09-11 Thread Ian Turner
On Monday 11 September 2006 01:48, Stephen Carville wrote: I've been using Amanda for about five years now. The only problems I've ever had are because a single dumps has to fit on a single tape. If you upgrade to Amanda 2.5.x, then you can instruct Amanda to split dumps across tapes; so you

Directory too large for single tape.

2006-09-10 Thread Stephen Carville
I've been using Amanda for about five years now. The only problems I've ever had are because a single dumps has to fit on a single tape. I usually solved this by using tar, client side compression, and breaking up the partitions into smaller chunks. However, I seem to have reached a limit.