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RE: out of tape - why?

2003-06-06 10:33:31
Subject: RE: out of tape - why?
From: "Rebecca Pakish Crum" <rebecca AT unterlaw DOT com>
To: "Danny R Spelbring" <dan AT rover.bsd.uchicago DOT edu>, <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:31:45 -0500
> I'm trying to do an amamda backup to a disk file.  The disk 
> I'm backing up has 3.1GB used (4GB total), while the output 
> "tape" I'm writing to has a length of 5GB.  It should fit, 
> but I get the following error message in the
> report:
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   catwoman.b / lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
> 
> Why?  I'm using amanda 2.4.4, backing up an Irix disk to a 
> Linux amanda server.
> 
> Dan

What else does the report say? What is the tape size and dump size
listed in the report? 
(i.e. 
Output Size (meg)       11704.4    11704.4        0.0
Tape Size (meg)         11704.9    11704.9        0.0)

What does your tapetype entry look like?


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