The tapetype is as follows:

define tapetype HWDISK-FILE {
    comment "disk file"
    length 5000 mbytes
    filemark 0 kbytes
}

In the amdump file I see these lines:

DELAYING DUMPS IF NEEDED, total_size 3168416, tape length 5120000 mark 0
  delay: Total size now 3168416.

PROMOTING DUMPS IF NEEDED, total_lev0 3168320, balanced_size 3168320...

which seem to indicate enough tape.


Here's most of the report:

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  catwoman.b / lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:07
Run Time (hrs:min)         1:03
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:40       0:40       0:00
Output Size (meg)        3093.7     3093.7        0.0
Original Size (meg)      3093.7     3093.7        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         -- 
Filesystems Dumped            1          1          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      1306.3     1306.3        -- 

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
Filesystems Taped             0          0          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         -- 

USAGE BY TAPE:
  Label                     Time      Size      %    Nb
  Rover_MonthlySetA01       0:00       0.0    0.0     0

DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS 
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
catwoman.bsd /           0 31679703167970   --   40:251306.3  FAILED  ----

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4)



At 09:31 AM 6/6/2003 -0500, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote:
>> 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?
>
>