I have a18G filesystem that needs to be backed up and do not have a tape changer. I have tried the following :- [...] When I run amdump WeeklySet1, it asks me to load tapes repeatedly.
Fine, just as expected. But does it make any backups? Or what exactly is your problem?
Since 2 tapes of 12G should be enough for the backup ( no hardware compression and using tar) , I am not sure what I'm doing wrong. can anyone help me with this config???
In the normal way of using amanda, you don't need chg-manual to backup a large disk. You could divide your big filesystem in smaller subdirectories, use a dumpcycle of several days, and spread the full backups over each run. Together with the incrementals, you can always restore up to the last day.
See in docs/disklist for the last example how split up a large directory.
Apology if this is not an answer to your question.
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