On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 at 11:51am, John Oliver wrote

> I got this report from amanda.  It looks to me like it's reporting that
> it used 48.9% of the tape (a DLT 4000 20/40GB), but that it ran out of
> space.  

Not quite. 48.9% of the tape was filled successfully.  However...

> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   backup     /dev/hda1 lev 1 FAILED [out of tape]
>   backup     /dev/hda1 lev 1 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
*snip*
>   taper: tape Indyme008 kb 20040128 fm 19 writing file: No space left on
> device

It actually wrote 20040128 KB to the tape before hitting EOT.  IOW, it was 
dumping /dev/hda1 straight to tape b/c it thought it would fit.  But it 
didn't.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University