On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:28:42PM -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Kurt Yoder wrote: > > > AFAIK it will hit end of tape and ask for another tape. However, > > there is no way to flush a single dump image to multiple tapes. So > > if you have a 20 GB dump image (even if it's been split up into > > pieces due to the chunksize parameter) and a 10 GB tape, there is no > > way to put the dump image on that tape. > > > Does this strike anyone besides me as dumb? Yes I've known these > details separately for years, but when they are put together in > the same paragraph it jumps out and says "Hey, the dump has already > been split into managable-sized pieces. All we need is to modify > taper to put them on multiple tapes and voila, we can span tapes!" > > Of course then we'd need to do some fiddling with amrestore to be > able to retrieve all the chunks during a restore...
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