Thanks for your response and sorry for not giving you enough
information before hand. I managed to get past this error, I
have another question though :)

I have various shares on the servers which are close to
10 GB to 25 GB of data on each share. What I have is
12/24 GB HP-DAT drive. How does amanda handle full backups
in this case? Does it split the image across two different
tapes?

Also on one particular partition where the data is just
6GB or so.. Amanda complains that there is that dump (level 0
for /home) partition is larger than the tape. How do I handle
backups for such partitions?

This is the error which I got from Amanda Mail report after
running amdump command:

*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [cannot overwrite active tape TLS-set-1-01].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  localhost  /home lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than tape, but cannot
incremental dump new disk]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:01
Run Time (hrs:min)         0:06
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:04       0:00       0:04
Output Size (meg)         266.8        0.0      266.8
Original Size (meg)       912.4        0.0      912.4
Avg Compressed Size (%)    29.2        --        29.2   (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped            3          0          3   (1:3)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      1025.9        --      1025.9

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)     --         --         -- 


NOTES:
  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/home.
  planner: Full dump of localhost:/var/www specially promoted from 7 days
ahead.


DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
localhost    /home       0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
localhost    -al/test 1  348030  78504  22.6   1:26 908.9   N/A   N/A
localhost    /var/log    1   88580   5178   5.8   0:08 616.5   N/A   N/A
localhost    /var/www    1  497650 189475  38.1   2:511104.9   N/A   N/A

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.3)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon LaBadie" <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: Help


> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:18:30PM +0530, Rohit wrote:
> > Any idea about this error?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Rohit
> >
> > *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
> >
> > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.
> >
> > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> >   localhost  /usr/local/test RESULTS MISSING
> >   localhost  /var/www RESULTS MISSING
> >   localhost  /home RESULTS MISSING
> >   localhost  /var/log RESULTS MISSING
> >   amreport: ERROR error copying PostScript template file
> > /etc/amanda/DailySet1/HP-DAT.ps: Broken pipe
> >
> >
> > STATISTICS:
> >                           Total       Full      Daily
> >                         --------   --------   --------
> > Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
> > Run Time (hrs:min)         0:00
> > Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
> > Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0
> > Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0
> > Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         -- 
> > Filesystems Dumped            0          0          0
> > Avg Dump Rate (k/s)         --         --         -- 
> >
> > 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)     --         --         -- 
> >
> >
> > DUMP SUMMARY:
> >                                      DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
> > HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS
KB/s
>
> -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
> > localhost    -al/test   MISSING --------------------------------------
> > localhost    /var/log
     MISSING --------------------------------------
> > localhost    /var/www
     MISSING --------------------------------------
> >
> > (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.3)
> >
> >
>
> With so little info, my psychic powers are limited.  :)
>
> You need to look at:
> the amcheck output,
> the log files, and
> the debug files.
>
> -- 
> Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
>  JG Computing
>  4455 Province Line Road        (609) 252-0159
>  Princeton, NJ  08540-4322      (609) 683-7220 (fax)