Richard, You are able to set up your disklist in such a way that you can control the size of each filesystem that will be dumped. You do not have to backup by disk or partition. You can backup by individual directories. For example, here is a section of my disklist file: ### AIX on SBS sbs / root-tar sbs /usr root-tar sbs /home root-tar
### Gemini on SBS sbs /gemini/disk1/d0 gemini-full-high sbs /gemini/disk1/d1 gemini-full-high sbs /gemini/disk1/d5 gemini-full-high sbs /gemini/disk1/laisys gemini-inc-low sbs /gemini/disk1/obj gemini-inc-low sbs /gemini/disk1/sys gemini-inc-low sbs /gemini/disk2/d2 gemini-full-high sbs /gemini/disk2/d7 gemini-full-med Now even though our /gemini filesystem is 40GB, I am able to backup fine by specifying subdirectories in my disklist. I hope this helps you out! Anthony Valentine -----Original Message----- From: Morse, Richard E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 5:29 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Question on level 0 dumps Hi! I would like to start using Amanda to back up a small LAN I have, consisting mainly of Solaris 2.6 machines (+ 1 NT box, although that can wait, and 1 RedHat 7 box). The machine that I intend to use as a host is an older SPARCstation 2, which has two tape drives attached -- a DDS3 drive and an older EXAbyte drive. I understand that the tapes that I use, since Amanda can't use both drives, need to be able to handle a level 0 dump from any of the machines. What I'm wondering is, does the level 0 dump have to be unbroken across the entire machine, or does Amanda schedule by partitions? That is, most of the machines use have somewhere between 4 and 8 gigs of data on them, which cannot fit on one of the EXAbyte tapes. However, none of their partitions are larger than about 3 gigs, which would fit on one of the tapes. So what I'm wondering is if Amanda schedules backups on the partition level or on the host level. Just in case you're wondering why I want to use the EXAbyte tapes, it's because I have about 100+ of them, whereas I only have around 20 of the DDS3 tapes, and although I will be buying more, I'm wondering if I can get way with the EXAbyte tapes for a while... Thanks muchly, Ricky Morse ------------------------------------------------- Richard Morse Systems Administrator, MGH Biostatistics Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] <---------> 617 724 9830
