> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 at 10:50am, yam wrote > >> I have been using amanda for over a year. Having HP SureStore >> Autoloader (9 tapes carrusel). It's been ok during that time. >> >> Now, since I have to backup a big disk, I have decided to change the >> autoloader operation mode from random mode, to stacker mode... Thats >> means now it doesnt have a 9 tapes carrusel but a big tape (tape >> capacity = 9 DLT 40/80 tapes). > > From looking at the docs and some quick googling, I don't think stacker > mode works like this. Yes, it will automatically load the next tape > when it hits EOT, but I don't see any indications that the autoloader > firmware virtualizes this and presents one contiguous tape to the OS. > > So you're going to have to split that big fs up (using tar). Whether > you stay in stacker mode or go back to random is up to you. Myself, > I'd go back to random. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University
I have changed back to random mode, and decided to go for the splitting up way, but I have a main doubt since I have a big fs. How can I split up a one terabyte filesystem (whose directories I dont know its size) in 30~40GB amanda disklist entries so I can back it up using amanda? Using tar? What do you mean? Yam
