"Brian J. Murrell" wrote:
>
> I had a thought. My recent experiences with Amanda leads me to believe
> that she will attempt to backup as much data in a single tape run as she
> can. For instance if you had a 35GB tape but only 30GB worth of data,
> total, would she not do level zero backups of all filesystems every
> night?
That's not the way Amanda runs. She tries to fill each tape to the same
level.
> This thought lead me to an idea. I am sure others out there are in the
> same situation as I in which I have just one filesystem on my network
> that does not fit on my backup medium. I have a whole cache of DDS2
> tapes (4GB native) being used in a DDS3 (12GB native with DDS3 tapes)
> drive.
Split it up using tar or backup it in a different way.
