35GB AIT-1 tapes (Native) plus I also have compression on the
drives DISABLED (advice from the list about double compressing a file,
resulting in a larger file than what you started with). It has slowed down
the backups but the large (already compressed thanks to oracle) export
database files seem to fit on the tape now.

Those two files add up as follows:
2355658752+
32212254720
---------------
34567913472
---------------

and the filesystem is 33.7GB so it should just fit on:
-------------------------
HOST          FILESYSTEM          TOTAL      USED
pokolbin       /u20                            36144364  33701475
-----------------------------------------------------------------
TOTALS:                                      36144364  33701475




Maybe I'm living too close to the edge? Maybe the tape is bad towards the end 
...
I'll change the tape and try flushing again. Hmmmmm ... that's
3 tapes now and all with the same flush error:

Subject:  schedule8 AMFLUSH MAIL REPORT FOR March 17, 2004
   Date:  Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:28:57 +1100 (EST)
   From:  Amanda Archiving Server <amanda AT dipnr.nsw.gov DOT au>
     To:   aman AT dipnr.nsw.gov DOT au, amanda AT dipnr.nsw.gov DOT au

The dumps were flushed to tape schedule8-WEEK3.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: I/O error]].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush again to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: schedule8-WEEK4.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  pokolbin   /u20 lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
Run Time (hrs:min)         1:10
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)     --         --         --

USAGE BY TAPE:
  Label                 Time      Size      %    Nb
  schedule8-WEEK3       0:00       0.0    0.0     0


NOTES:
  taper: tape schedule8-WEEK3 kb 3440992 fm 1 writing file: I/O error


DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
pokolbin     /u20        0     N/A      0   --    N/A   N/A   FAILED  ----

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p2)





Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 at 8:02am, Geoff Swavley wrote
>
> > I was wondering if anyone could tell me why amanda seems to split
> > my filesystem into 2 "holding" files? An error has occurred so these 
> > filesare
>
> This is normal, and the size of the chunks are set by the 'chunksize'
> parameter in amanda.conf.
>
> > NOTES:
> >   taper: tape schedule8-WEEK3 kb 31851520 fm 1 writing file: short write
> >   driver: going into degraded mode because of tape error.
>
> How big are your tapes?  It looks like you hit EOT here...
>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University

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