On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 at 11:05am, Ralph Bearpark wrote > > Remember, you can always split up your > > filesystems into multiple disklist entries using tar. Then you could > > reduce your tapelength to have *just enough* to fit everything once. > > Hmm, dividing my clients into multiple DLEs that I hope will never exceed > 600MB ... that's an ugly concept. > > I assume that Amanda is clever enough to not try to put, say, two 500MB > DLE backups on a single 600MB tape?
Yep. Amanda gets estimates for all the DLEs at multiple incremental levels, and figures out the "best" thing to do within the tapelength it has. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
