Hi David, I am no expert on this, however I think you may run into problems with that approach. Amanda expects consistency with the disk list and if you changed it each night, I think you'd have trouble with restores and Amanda would have trouble keeping track of the level of backup needed.
I think a more workable approach would be to determine or identify directories that contain less than 50GB of data and make entries in your disk list accordingly. In fact, you could have several entries in your disklist for that partition, on a subdirectory by subdirectory basis... I hope this helps. Jeff On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 14:20, David Trusty wrote: > Hi, > > I am working with a very large RAID array which needs backing-up. > > The array has 3 partitions, each containing approximately > 150GB of files. > > I have a tape changer with 20 tapes, each holding 50GB of data. > > Since amanda currently will not back up a disk larger than a > tape, I believe I need to specify smaller peices of the partitions > in my disklist. What I am thinking about doing is writing a script > which scans the partitions down to a certain depth and generates > a disklist of peieces small enough to backup onto a single tape, > using the GNUTAR method. > > Has anyone had a similar problem, and had any other solutions? > > Also, what is the effect on amanda of changing the disklist > (perhaps every night)? The changes (when they occur) will all > be different subpaths of the same partitions. Will this get > amanda confused, or make it back up a lot of extra files, or > is the gtar indexing able to handle this situation? > > Thanks in advance!! > > David > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Jeffery Smith - Systems Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Sky Computers, Inc. (www.skycomputers.com) | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
