Re: Newbie and not quite understanding ...

[Mitch Collinsworth]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Mark Holm wrote:

> Why am I only getting 4 partitions
> dumped per tape? I expected to get a full backup of all of the systems
> starting on the first tape and continuing across tapes until they were all
> completed.

Firstly, how big are your tapes?  How big did you tell amanda they
are in amanda.conf?  How big are the 4 dumps you got on the tape?

Secondly, you can get one amdump run to use more than one tape by
configuring to use a changer and setting runtapes to more than 1.

-Mitch