This one time, at band camp, Joe Rhett wrote: >1. Why aren't we backing up chunks to different tapes yet? Amanda is the >only backup software which doesn't handle this. > >-and more importantly- > >2. Why is it trying to back up 53gb to a 33gb tape definition? > >#2 is clearly a bug. #1 is a feature request long overdue, but #2 is >clearly the bug.
There's a patch from John Stange that I don't believe has been committed to CVS, but it takes care of splitting dumps and spanning tapes. Grep for it on the amanda-hackers list. Doesn't fix #2, but should take care of #1 for you.
