>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?

125m / 410 feet (12.0GB)

>2.) how often do you want amanda to take level0 dumps of your data?
>     once a week?

Does not matter, as long as at least one full dump is on one of the 6 tapes...

>3.) how many data do you need to backup?

~15GB presently (2 Machines, 12 Partitions). Will not grow much.

>4.) is hardwarecompression active in your tapedrive?

No, disabled by using device /dev/rmt/0bn (b= berkley mode n= no compression)

Urs


>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
>>>
>> 
>> 
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