--On Wednesday, February 12, 2003 09:27:22 -0600 Rebecca Pakish Crum <rebecca AT 
unterlaw DOT com> wrote:

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...

What does your tapetype look like?  This backup wrote 11 1/2 GB (actually taper 
wrote 11.83 GB),
which Amanda thinks is 99.8% of the tape capacity.  Check the length in your 
tapetype and make
sure you didn't lose a 0 at the end of it.
  BTW, you are about to overwrite most of your fulls on your next run.

Frank

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

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