On Nov 2, 2000, "Paul D. Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have read that AMANDA can not handle backup "images"
> larger than a single tape.
Yep. So that you don't need Amanda to restore your system after a
major disk crash.
> If that is true, what is the point of a tape changer?
If you have multiple images that fit individually in multiple tapes,
you don't have to switch tapes manually between them.
> a 60GB hard drive to back up, with an ADIC 12-tape autoloader
> (DDS-2 4/8GB tapes).
Either create multiple filesystems or use Amanda+GNU tar to backup
separate sub-directories of this 60GB filesystem.
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