PATRICK,
I am not Amanda expert either :)
>I was hopping that compression would do the trick as I currently only
>have
>6Gbytes of data on the partition....
never ever assume that, Amanda is doing it's own compression, then the
tape tries to recompress again, and it messes everything, could even
increase the size.
>Reading some FAQ and emails I got the impression that Amanda was
>"spreading"
>the full backup on the dumpcycle, so I was hoping not to have to manualy
>change tapes anymore due to the size of the filesystem, I must have
>misunderstood the emails!
It will full dump one file system one day, another file system another
day. But once it full dumps one file system, it is within a single
day.
>But hen the MULTITAPE documentation says:
>"- a single dump file can straddle two tapes"
>So who/what should I believe ?
I unde4rstand it as: need to use DUMP (not tar) and have manual
changer activated. Then it can spread.
If you wanna use tar, you can split the file system by dumping one sub
directory at a time.
>Pat.
>PS: next step is to provide a backup mechanism for Windows user through
>Samba ... !!
This runs smoothly once you've solved the Windows problem. Needs to
have proper passwords, need that people do not switch off the PC,
needs the files are not open, then it does the trick.
You don't even need a full samba, smbclient is enough (and maybe
nmblookup)
Olivier
