On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:29:13PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:24:05PM +0530, Rohit Peyyeti wrote:
> > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> >   localhost  /h lev 0 FAILED [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump 
> > new disk]
> >   [plus three more of the same]
> 
> This suggests to me that the DLE's are each larger than your tape.

I don't think so.  In that case, the message would have been
"dump larger than tape, but cannot yada yada" (Phase 1 of
delay_dumps()).

The "dumps too big" variant comes from Phase 2, when a full dump
is due, but planner wants to postpone it and do an incremental
instead, to fit all the DLEs onto the tape.  In the case of a new
disk, as you pointed out, the do-an-incremental-instead option
isn't possible, so planner's only choice is to skip the DLE
entirely.

Rohit:

The answer, as Jon said, is to add DLEs a few at a time -- or, in
your case, it looks like *one* at a time :-(, so as not to ask
Amanda to put more on a tape than will fit.

Or else just don't worry about it; leave all of the DLEs in there
and let them fight it out for tape space :-)  Sooner or later,
they'll all make it onto tape, as //windows/UsersG3 did this
time.  I doubt that it'll happen any faster if you follow the
usual advice and only add them slowly.  The only advantages of
doing it that way are:
  - you won't get Amanda shouting at you that YOUR BACKUPS
    FAILED!!

  - if some DLEs are more important to back up than others, you
    get to put those into the backup system first, rather than
    letting Amanda choose randomly which one(s) to add in any
    given run


> > --> some NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND errors <--

Someone recently posted a solution to that, I think.  Couldn't
hurt to check the archives for it.

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