On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:11:50PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 12:17pm, Frank Smith wrote
> 
> > --On Wednesday, February 12, 2003 08:50:56 -0800 John Oliver <joliver AT 
> > john-oliver DOT net> wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm still having a problem with one partition that amanda keeps trying
> > > to do a level 0 backup for, and fails.  Why will it not back up this
> > > partition all by itself, or with just a couple of other things?
> > 
> > Is it larger than the 18GB taper was able to write to tape?  Also, did
> > all the output come from the same run, because taper claims it wrote 18GB
> > when it hit EOT, but the stats only show writing 564MB.
> 
> That's correct, though.  Only 564MB made it to tape successfully.  The 
> 18GB is that 564MB plus 17.5GB worth of hda2 that amanda wrote before it 
> hit EOT.

I want to see if I understand this correctly... since my holdingdisk was
only 2GB, and the filesystem in question is ~18-19GB, amanda was trying
to write it directly to tape.  Further, I'm guessing that, because the
data wasn't going through the holdingdisk, that that was precluding
compression, which is why I was running out of space (since my drive is
20/40).

But, then... the drive is supposed to be compressing, isn't it?  Maybe
I'm still confused... :-)

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