Re: Automatically split large DLE

Or maybe use compression if that is reasonable for the type of data

On 05.10.2021 10:53, Jens Berg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> AFAIK, there is no such option.
> Amanda is designed to write at least one full backup of each DLE within 
> the period defined by "dumpcycle". She can (and will) shift the day when 
> a particular DLE is fully backed up but she can't automatically split 
> it. I think you have two choices.
> 1. The obvious one, manually split the large DLE by exclude and/or 
> include statements in the disklist.
> 2. Release the shackles and increase "runtapes", so that more (v)tapes 
> per run are allowed and let Amanda decide about the best usage of the 
> tapes defined by tapecycle.
> 
> BRs,
> Jens
> 
> On 05.10.2021 10:08, Olivier wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a DLE that has grown larger (1.3TB) than the total vtape space
>> allocated per day (1.1TB). Is there a way for Amanda to automatically
>> split a DLE when it gets too large for a single run?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Olivier
>>