Subject: Re: amanda and filesystems bigger than tape
To: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@quick.com.au>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/29/2000 14:52:15
[ On Saturday, April 29, 2000 at 22:32:28 (+1000), Simon J. Gerraty wrote: ]
> Subject: amanda and filesystems bigger than tape
>
> In a discussion some time ago, on whether to use or not use hardware
> compression with amanda, the concensus was not to.

At least not if you compress the data with amanda before backing it up!

> Does amanda not handle using multiple tapes for a single fs?

Nope.  It's been on their todo list for a long time and they've been
inviting implementations....   :-)

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