Re: Single-tape unit, multiple tapes per backup? (newbie)

2001-07-21 Thread John R. Jackson
>I am pretty new to Amanda ... Welcome! >I have a single-tape SCSI unit (DDS-2). I want to be able to backup >more than ~5GB per run. ... Keep in mind that a single backup image (i.e. the dump of one file system) cannot span a tape (yet), so you have to keep their size to under ~5GB. >Is the

Re: Single-tape unit, multiple tapes per backup? (newbie)

2001-07-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 19 Jul 2001 at 1:01pm, Dan Smith wrote > I am pretty new to Amanda, so this question might be stupid. > > I have a single-tape SCSI unit (DDS-2). I want to be able to backup > more than ~5GB per run. Is there not a way to get Amanda to somehow > stop at the end of a tape, email a request for

Single-tape unit, multiple tapes per backup? (newbie)

2001-07-19 Thread Dan Smith
I am pretty new to Amanda, so this question might be stupid. I have a single-tape SCSI unit (DDS-2). I want to be able to backup more than ~5GB per run. Is there not a way to get Amanda to somehow stop at the end of a tape, email a request for another tape, and then continue when the tape has b