On 1 Feb 2002 at 1:09pm, Jeff Bearer wrote > I'm in a dilemma, we added some new servers to the backup schedule, > some monsterously inefficient lotus notes servers, where their data > directory is already 27gb, I'm using DLT40 without hardware compression > so that gives me 20 GB tapes.
Are you using software compression? Are you using any compression? I've got to imagine some sort of compression (one *or* the other) could get that directory onto tape. > I know that one of the few things amanda can't do is span one partition > across multiple tapes. That is still the case right? Yep. > I can only see two solutions, get bigger hardware, or buy commercial > backup software that can span tapes. Does anybody have any other ideas > on how I can back these up with the existing hardware and software? Besides compression, the other canonical response is tar and subdirectories, i.e. split the disklist entry up into smaller chunks. If that is truly one directory with lots of files and no subdirectories (I know nothing about Lotus Notes) then you could split it up via exclude lists. If it's one big file (like a DB), then you're SOL without compression or new hardware/software. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
