On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 at 11:14am, Stott, Trevor wrote > I have a number of very large file systems that require backups. One > containing 74GB of data and the other containing 65GB both have the > potential to grow to 168GB in time. The backups are currently failing to > backup those partitions to a single tape. I have another DLT7000 tape drive > that I can pull into the config but I'm not sure how amanda can handle this. > Reading through the docs it seems you can use libraries but not really > multiple standalone units. Even at that I'm not sure it can split a single > dump or partition across 2 tapes.. Can someone out there offer some > assistance?
The only way *I* know to use multiple tape drives is via multiple configs. You may be able to hack together a changer script, but I have no idea how. And, yes, you are correct that amanda cannot span a filesystem across multiple tapes. > If that fails is it possible to still use ufsdump on the Solaris 8 client > but split the partition by backing up parts instead of the full disk? No. You need to use GNUtar to do that. > Either way the partitions will only grow further so I'm very open to any > suggestions. I know the feeling. tar and lots of tapes is the way to go. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
