Re: [TCLUG:20010] tape back programs

[Jon Schewe <jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net>]

But I don't want to split it.  If I have to split it at a tape then I might as
well use taper.

barnabas@knicknack.net writes:

> 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.
> > 
> 
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