I should of stated filesystem.....bad Don....no soup for me.... It will put as many filesystems on a tape as possibel (prvoding tape length is calc'd correctly) and then write the remainder on the next tape (if you have specified the dumps to use multiple tapes)
Sorry for the confusion..I'll keep my mouth shut from now on 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... ? > >- Eric >
