Hi,
now let's get some information to sort out varios things:
1.) what length are the tapes you use: 120 meter or 125 meter?
2.) how often do you want amanda to take level0 dumps of your data?
    once a week?
3.) how many data do you need to backup?
4.) is hardwarecompression active in your tapedrive?
Christoph

forster AT bluemail DOT ch schrieb:

From: Christoph Scheeder <christoph.scheeder AT scheeder DOT de>
Hi,
first :
simple answer, simple question, and amanda is telling it to you:
amanda thinks the level 0 dump of this filesystem will not fit on a single
tape.

That's understood.

Amanda can not span a single disk-list entry over multiple tapes.
you'll have to split it up using excludelists and tar.

[...]

NOTES:
 planner: pbrazor1.tszrh.csfb.com /ora 20030226 0 [dump larger than tape,
full dump delayed]

[...]
second: these values will give you problems.

There are 6 Tapes in the changer;
dumpcycle 1 weeks
runspercycle 5
tapecycle 6 tapes
runtapes 3

you want 5 runs per week, each using up to 3 tapes.
This tells amanda:
do a level 0 for each filesystem at least every 15 tapes.
but a little later you tell her she only has 6 tapes in rotation.
this is a NoNo with amanda.
either lower your dump-cycle or get more tapes.
runtapes should be at least one tape bigger then runspercycle x runtapes,
or amanda will get confused about when to do a level 0 of your disks.

OK, I see the problem, but not the solution yet ;-)
There are 6 Tapes in the changer and I dont want to swap these. It is supposed
to be sort of "unmaintained forever".
- If I put runtapes 1: will it still use more than one tape if needed?
- If I put runspercycle 3 and runtapes 2 then I still would need 7 Tapes...
- If I put runspercycle 2 and still call it 5 times: will it confuse amanda?

I know I could find out trying but it would take ages.

if you want only level 0 backups, you should set dumpcycle to 0.
Christoph