Kris Boulez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What do people think about my proposed solution to this problem
>
> Problem
> -------
> Filesysteem needs to be backed up using amanda. Level 0 doesn't fit on a
> single tape anymore (after compression)
>
> Solutions
> ---------
> a) By a tape unit which can hold more data (expensive)
>
> b) Wait for multi-tape support in amanda (ETA ?)
>
> c) Split the filesystem on the server
>
> d) let amanda believe that the filesystem is split
> - create two dumptype, each with a seperate exclude list
> - add two entries to the disklist with seperate dump type (will
> amanda backup the same partition twice ?)
> - (if the above step doesn't work) create a new /dev/rdsk/.. entry
> pointing to the same device but with a different name
>
>
> Do you think d) can be made to work ?
Until b) works (i.e is post gamma phase :-) ) the standard work around
is
e) use tar on sub directories as disklist entries. For a large home
partition you could move from /home/username1 to
/home/workgroup1/username1 and back up /home/workgroup[1..X]. It gets
tricky when you commonly add large sub dir's to a common dir
(e. g. large data sets from experiments)
HTH,
Johannes Niess
