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 at 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. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -- Jon Schewe http://eggplant.mtu.net/~jpschewe jpschewe at eggplant.mtu.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org