Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:24:10 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com> To: Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd@volant.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Amanda or Bacula Message-ID: <200310141824.h9EIOABk024964@quarter.csl.sri.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:10:05 PDT." <1229145408.1066155005@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org>
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> 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.) That can work, but I dont like using tar in place of dump. Dump's incremental backup handling is better. I handle this by limiting a maximum size of a partition to no larger than a tape's raw (e.g. uncompressed) capacity.
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