Re: [TCLUG:20010] tape back programs

[barnabas@knicknack.net]

Are you aware that amanda can use tar to do backups?  If you use tar,
you can also use exclusion lists to split your partition backup into
several pieces.

Eric

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:55:32AM -0500, Jon Schewe wrote:
> Got a problem here.  I'm looking for a backup program to back up partitions
> that are larger than my tapes, so I need the backups to span multiple tapes.
> Taper claims it can do it, but not very well, plus it has a limit of 4GB on a
> backup run, I need closer to 7Gb, right now, larger later.  Amanda looks good
> except that docs state that it can't backup a partition that is larger than a
> tape.
> 
> Any suggestions?  I've got a SCSI tape drive that uses wide QIC 3080 tapes.
>