>We're using the Amanda version 2.3.0.4 on Solaris. Good grief! :-)
>We have been having the problem (recenlty) where >the backups have been failing due to reaching the end >of the tape. ... There are two ways you could be hitting end of tape. It might be that the total cumulative size of all the image is bigger than the tape. Or you might have a single image that won't fit on a single tape. Which is it? The former (lots of images, but all smaller than a single tape) can be dealt with using a tape changer. Note that you don't have to have an actual hardware changer. Amanda comes with two "manual" changers (chg-manual and chg-multi) and I have another I'll be glad to help anyone with who wants it. Or you could write your own (they are pretty simple shell/Perl scripts). If the problem is a really big image, then you're right that Amanda does not yet support tape overflow (part of the image on one tape and the remainder on another). Although take a look at the 2.4.3 RAIT code and the discussion of it today in the list. You can use it with multiple tape drives and "cheat". If you do decide to upgrade, just a head's up that 2.4 changed the protocol and breaks backward compatibility with 2.3 (not one of our finer moments -- sigh), so you have to upgrade everything at once. >Gardiner Leverett John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
