Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:10:05 -0700 From: Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd@volant.org> To: Rick Duvall <rduvall@onlinehighways.net>, Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Amanda or Bacula Message-ID: <1229145408.1066155005@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> In-Reply-To: <008d01c3927c$5caae710$f901a8c0@ws21> References: <200310141723.h9EHNJBk016338@quarter.csl.sri.com> <008d01c3927c$5caae710$f901a8c0@ws21>
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--On Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:55:32 -0700 Rick Duvall <rduvall@onlinehighways.net> wrote: > So to clarify just so that I understand correctly: > > 1. Each filesystem per system to be backed up qualifies as a dumpfile. > 2. Multiple dumpfiles per backup > 3. Multiple tapes per backup, as long as 1 dumpfile isn't larger than the > tape. > > One of my systems has a 120 gig drive with about 36gigs (and growing) of > people's images, documents, etc on it (samba server). My single tape > drive is only 20 gigs. I am assuming this will be a problem for Amanda > unless I get a bigger tape drive. The AMANDA docs suggest handling this situation by splitting the partition up into multiple tar dumps; each of which will fit on the tape. (I'm currently in the process of tweaking my configs to try this for one of my partitions.) -Pat
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