> The AMANDA docs suggest handling this situation by splitting the
> partition up into multiple tar dumps; each of which will fit on the
> tape.  (I'm currently in the process of tweaking my configs to try this
> for one of my partitions.)

That can work, but I dont like using tar in place of dump.  Dump's
incremental backup handling is better.  I handle this by limiting a
maximum size of a partition to no larger than a tape's raw
(e.g. uncompressed) capacity.


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