Problems with very large dumps

2002-03-15 Thread Stott, Trevor
I have a number of very large file systems that require backups. One containing 74GB of data and the other containing 65GB both have the potential to grow to 168GB in time. The backups are currently failing to backup those partitions to a single tape. I have another DLT7000 tape drive that I

Re: Problems with very large dumps

2002-03-15 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 at 11:14am, Stott, Trevor wrote I have a number of very large file systems that require backups. One containing 74GB of data and the other containing 65GB both have the potential to grow to 168GB in time. The backups are currently failing to backup those partitions to a

Re: Problems with very large dumps

2002-03-15 Thread Jeffery Smith
Hi Trevor, You may want to check your chunksize. I have mine set to 1GB so large backups are split into 1GB files. Additionally you may need, even on Solaris 8, to update tar gzip such that they will be able to handle the larger files. You could also effect this in your disklist. Rather

Re: Problems with very large dumps

2002-03-15 Thread John R. Jackson
... I have another DLT7000 tape drive that I can pull into the config but I'm not sure how amanda can handle this. Reading through the docs it seems you can use libraries but not really multiple standalone units. ... The chg-multi script will do this. It simulates a changer by moving between