On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 at 9:11pm, Luke Miller wrote

> I am having some problems backing up a large partition (raid).
> I have a raid as a single partition with 56 GB of space.  My tape drive
> is a DLT 20 GB drive with a tape library with 7 slots using mtx for the changer.
> I am running amanda version 2.4.2p2.  I have set runtapes to 2 in amanda.conf
> hoping that I can use two tapes for my backups.  Below is the backup report
> from this attempted backup.  What am I missing here?

The fact that amanda cannot span a partition across tapes (yet).  Thus, no 
single disklist entry can be bigger than your tapelength.

> Or, what is the prefered method for doing a backup for my situation.

Use GNUtar rather then dump (make sure you have at least version 1.13.19), 
and split the RAID into multiple disklist entries.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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