Re: dump larger than tape, 30864683 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk
> So you are saying i should loock for ~4GB directories tar them instead > to dump them? Just to be on the safe side, and if you are considering to split your backup anyway, it is better to split into pieces that are smaller than the tape size. > I thought amanda can split such big backup archives up in serveral > parts. I doubt that someone will backup up a 200GB System onto one > single tape. Not sure if Amanda can split a single DLE onto several tapes. I use a pre-historic version of Amanda that run single tape :) Spliting your big DLE into pieces (as many pieces as runpercycle) is anyway a good tactic, so on every dump Amanda will backup one of the pieces, and you will end up with equal dump time every day. Else you will have one big day, doing the 200GB and many small other days. Olivier
Re: dump larger than tape, 30864683 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk
Hi Mario, Take a look at http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes Paddy On 8/8/06, mario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 06:34 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 at 11:51am, mario wrote > > >> That said, your tapelist shows 4350 MB, why making chuncks of 4500MB? > >> You may well be facing the same problem again... > > > > I thought amanda can split such big backup archives up in serveral > > parts. I doubt that someone will backup up a 200GB System onto one > > single tape. > > You're looking for the tape spanning feature, which is explained in the > docs. Which chapter is that? I could not find it with: lynx -dump http://www.amanda.org/docs/index.html | grep -i spann Cheers, Mario -- Amanda documentation: http://wiki.zmanda.com Amanda forums: http://forums.zmanda.com
Re: dump larger than tape, 30864683 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 06:34 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 at 11:51am, mario wrote > > >> That said, your tapelist shows 4350 MB, why making chuncks of 4500MB? > >> You may well be facing the same problem again... > > > > I thought amanda can split such big backup archives up in serveral > > parts. I doubt that someone will backup up a 200GB System onto one > > single tape. > > You're looking for the tape spanning feature, which is explained in the > docs. Which chapter is that? I could not find it with: lynx -dump http://www.amanda.org/docs/index.html | grep -i spann Cheers, Mario
Re: dump larger than tape, 30864683 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 at 11:51am, mario wrote That said, your tapelist shows 4350 MB, why making chuncks of 4500MB? You may well be facing the same problem again... I thought amanda can split such big backup archives up in serveral parts. I doubt that someone will backup up a 200GB System onto one single tape. You're looking for the tape spanning feature, which is explained in the docs. There's also been a lot of discussion recently regarding backups to DVDs -- look through the list archives. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: dump larger than tape, 30864683 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk
Hello Oliver On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 09:19 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > > How can i tell amanda to split it up in 4500MB slices and write them one > > by one to DVD-RAM? > > Make them several DLEs. That means you must use GNU tar, not dump and > you must identify sub-hierarchies, from that too big disk, that will > match your 4.5 GB limit. Time to play with exclude file list. So you are saying i should loock for ~4GB directories tar them instead to dump them? > > That said, your tapelist shows 4350 MB, why making chuncks of 4500MB? > You may well be facing the same problem again... I thought amanda can split such big backup archives up in serveral parts. I doubt that someone will backup up a 200GB System onto one single tape. A Backup onto DVD would then never be possile??? Thanks, Mario
Re: dump larger than tape, 30864683 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk
Hi, > How can i tell amanda to split it up in 4500MB slices and write them one > by one to DVD-RAM? Make them several DLEs. That means you must use GNU tar, not dump and you must identify sub-hierarchies, from that too big disk, that will match your 4.5 GB limit. Time to play with exclude file list. That said, your tapelist shows 4350 MB, why making chuncks of 4500MB? You may well be facing the same problem again... Bests, olivier
