Hi all - 

I have amanda 2.4.2p2 running on a RH 7.3 box with a Quantum SuperDLT 110GB 
tape drive. I am currently sending 11-13GB to this drive depending on the day...

amanda is telling me my dump is too big and degrading my level 0's to level 1! 
How is this possible? I run amdump from a script called by cron and have for 
some time. The first line in my script rewinds the tape, just in case. I have 
tried multiple tapes, so I don't believe it is a media issue.  Here is my 
amdump report:

These dumps were to tape uamonthly200301.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: uamonthly200301.


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:03
Run Time (hrs:min)         1:01
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:55       0:54       0:00
Output Size (meg)       11552.6    11507.8       44.8
Original Size (meg)     11552.6    11507.8       44.8
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         --    (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped           15         10          5   (1:5)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      3608.1     3614.8     2444.7

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:19       0:19       0:00
Tape Size (meg)         11553.1    11508.2       44.9
Tape Used (%)              99.8       99.4        0.4   (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Taped            15         10          5   (1:5)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 10417.3    10525.0     2878.3


NOTES:
  planner: Last full dump of slaw:/usr on tape  overwritten in 1 run.
  planner: Last full dump of slaw:/home on tape  overwritten in 1 run.
  planner: Last full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/export/home on tape  
overwritten in 1 run.
  planner: Last full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/usr on tape  overwritten in 1 
run.
  planner: Last full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/u05/oracle/admin/ua on tape  
overwritten in 1 run.
  planner: Last full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/u05/oracle/admin/testua on 
tape  overwritten in 1 run.
  planner: Last full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/var on tape  overwritten in 1 
run.
  planner: Last full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/usr on tape  overwritten in 1 
run.
  planner: Last full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/opt on tape  overwritten in 1 
run.
  planner: Last full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/export/home on tape  
overwritten in 1 run.
  planner: Last full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/etc on tape  overwritten in 1 
run.
  planner: Last full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/var on tape  overwritten in 1 
run.
  planner: Last full dump of weber.unterlaw.com:/usr on tape  overwritten in 1 
run.
  planner: Last full dump of weber.unterlaw.com:/opt on tape  overwritten in 1 
run.
  planner: Last full dump of weber.unterlaw.com:/var on tape  overwritten in 1 
run.
  planner: Incremental of weber.unterlaw.com:/var bumped to level 2.
  planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of slaw:/home delayed.
  planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/var delayed.
  planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/var delayed.
  planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/opt delayed.
  planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/usr delayed.
  taper: tape uamonthly200301 kb 11830368 fm 15 [OK]


DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS 
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
slaw         /home       1    1184   1184   --    0:003792.9   0:011187.5
slaw         /usr        0  692672 692672   --    3:453083.4   0:5612399.8
smores.unter /etc        0    2400   2400   --    0:011713.4   0:03 847.8
smores.unter -xport/home 0 14187521418752   --    8:472693.6   1:4113983.4
smores.unter /opt        1   34976  34976   --    0:113233.3   0:103381.3
smores.unter /usr        0  464576 464576   --    3:222296.3   0:2916027.7
smores.unter /var        1    6464   6464   --    0:041564.9   0:015722.3
spork.unterl -xport/home 0 15429761542976   --    6:273982.5   1:2617908.4
spork.unterl -min/testua 0 18540481854048   --    6:005156.1   3:069981.8
spork.unterl -e/admin/ua 0 43280324328032   --   13:565175.1   6:5510435.5
spork.unterl /usr        1    1216   1216   --    0:02 529.6   0:02 711.7
spork.unterl /var        1    2016   2016   --    0:011675.4   0:021188.5
weber.unterl /opt        0   17056  17056   --    0:053723.8   0:0210528.9
weber.unterl /usr        0  198272 198272   --    1:092873.6   0:563546.9
weber.unterl /var        0 12652481265248   --   10:481952.6   3:066791.8

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2)

Any ideas?

Rebecca A. Crum  
Systems Administrator 
Unterberg & Associates, P.C. 
(219) 736-5579 ext. 184