I have a set of machines file systems which are bigger than the size of a single tape (I don't know for sure, just trying to get my bearings in those STRANGE and FAILED, attempting to reset the dump cycle after testing).
1) This means I can't do full dumps as is, right?
2) Can I trick Amanda into backing up this by excluding certain big directories (say, Oracle dbases, which need explicit dumping, anyway), starting a cycle, and removing them from the exclusin list?
I'm still screwed, as Amanda will do a full dump, periodically, which will fail, right?
So: is there some trick to it, or should I just bite the bullet, buy a DDS4 drive, and set up a restrictive exclusion list?
