On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, at 2:53pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> However, if you have a single file system smaller than one tape, that's
> not a problem.

  Nope.  :-(

> Also, you can use Gnu tar such that you back up directory hierarchies
> separately, and therefore don't need to have the file system span tapes.

  The directory/file structure for this application is under constant flux,
so that would make things labor intensive.  I want to avoid that if I
possibly can.

> For example, if you have a 100GB fs, and you're using DLT IV tapes which
> only take about 80GB compressed, rather than using dump to dump the entire
> file system, have amanda use gnu tar to dump separate directories.

  ext2dump is out in any event.  We're using ReiserFS.

-- 
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