Amanda or Bacula

[Pat Lashley]

--On Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:55:32 -0700 Rick Duvall 
<rduvall at 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