On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 02:10:53PM -0500, Jim Summers wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I am preparing to re-configure my amanda system.  I noticed while
> reading the man pages that the version (2.4.2p2) of amanda I am using
> will not do true tape overflow.
> 
> I have an old DDS3 tape changer I am going to use (I have a stockpile of
> DDS3) with a 12/24G capacity per tape.
> 
> One of my file systems is slightly over the 24G limit and has not been
> able to be backed up on my current config of one tape.  I was hoping
> that when I went to the changer and have 2 tapes per run set that it
> would continue on to the next tape.  Now I am not sure.
> 
> Will the newest version do overflow?

As is said many times here, each disklist entry must fit on a single tape.

> Any ideas on how to handle this?

use tar and split the single disklist entry into multiple entries
instead of /fs backup /fs/a and /fs/b separately.

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