On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 at 10:51pm, Olivier Nicole wrote
> >I am learning to use Amanda but it seems it has a problem, as everyone
> >knows, backing up a filesystem larger than the tape.
>
> Am I wrong? I understood that Amanda is supposed to ask for as many
> tapes during a single run, that are needed to complete the back-up.
>
> So it would start and ask for a second, third, fourth... tape until it
> managed to back-up everything.
It will use as many tapes as it needs during a single amdump run *if* you
set runtapes large enough and define a tape changer (including you, a.k.a
chg-manual).
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
