On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 at 1:57pm, Eric Trager wrote > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Don Potter wrote: > > > When taper started writing the dumps to tape and it was determined that > > the filesystem exceeded the expected tape size (regardless of hardware > > compression) the dumps would fail since the dumps aren't capable of > > spanning tapes > > Waitaminit... this I didn't know. Amanda can't run dumps across tapes? Why > is the runtapes entry even used at all? > > So if I use HW compression and set the length at 65 Gb, and I want to do a > "level 0" dump (say it's the first dump, for example) ... > > host /filesystem # 40 Gb FS > host /filesystem2 # 20 Gb FS > host /filesystem3 # 20 Gb FS > > ... Amanda will continue to sense a problem and drop one of the > filesystems from the lineup? I thought that, using "runtapes 2", amanda > would put two of the filesystems on one tape, load the next tape, and > stick the leftover system on it... ?
The latter is correct. What Don's referring to is the fact that amanda cannot span *a single filesystem* across multiple tapes. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
