On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 at 11:03am, Chad Morland wrote > > On Tuesday 22 October 2002 18:04, Chad Morland wrote: > > >I am trying to backup a 100G file onto tape. I am wondering if I > > > can use amanda for this. Will it span the archive across more > > > than one tape? I am using a DLT 7000 drive. If not, what are you > > > recommendations? > > > > Yikes! For that, you will have to locate a drive and tape format > > that will hold it in one tape. Or, you have to use a split/join > > utility to break it up into tapable sized pieces that are each an > > independant file to the filesystem.
*snip* > I find that very strange considering that tar, dump and several other > backup utilities support this. Amanda developers don't want to add this Err, *can* dump/tar span a single *file* across tapes? I'm not sure. A single filesystem -- sure. But a file? > just for the sake of having it? I know I am not the only one that can > find this feature useful. I can keep track of my tapes, and I'm sure it > is not a difficult task for someone who can install, configure and use > Amanda to do the same. Are there any other concrete and real issues for > not including this feature other than operator misuse? Time. Spanning support has been in the planning stages for a long time. But the core AMANDA developers work very hard on lots of things that aren't AMANDA. If you'd like to get in touch with them and start coding, the contributions would be welcome. If you're talking about a *filesystem* rather than a file, then AMANDA can handle that easily via multiple disk list entries using tar. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
