Patrick in a word 'no'
It's up to you to make sure that the individual dumps can fit on a single tape. For my money this is the amanda's greatest downfall. BUT you can get around it by using gnutar and splitting the filesystems up by user or group (or whatever) to make sure that it will fit onto a tape. Once you've got each individual 'dumps' below the limit you can use the mtx etc to move the tapes around (or is this the actual problem you describe?) -- martin Patrick Schumacher wrote: > hello list. > after 4 days of work at least i made it und amanda and my tapechanger works. > hmm, the mtx and amtape commands works. so i think everything is ok for the > changer. > so i go on an try to make a back up of one of my servers. i what to back up > round about 50GB from the server. > today i found a mail in my postbox, reporting me this: > > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Input/output error]]. > Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. > Run amflush to flush them to tape. > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > peppone /mnt/homes lev 0 FAILED [out of tape] > > [snip] > > hmm, i think the tape ist full, so amanda cannot write more data on the > tape. is this right? > and is there a away to auto-change the tape if the first is full? > > greets > patrick > > Patrick Schumacher | technical department > > # easynet is part of the easynet group plc | www.easynetgroup.net > > >
