Eric,

Thank you, I should have been more complete...

The flush finally finished just a minutes ago, 31Gig to DLT 8000
took 4:44 (hours:minutes). I'm not sure I will not have to divide
the tar into smaller pieces, the one tar of the partition took
up 85% of the tape capacity.

Got to say though, I was resistant but its already more than
worth building tar into amanda.

Now I have to try my hand at a restore.

                                        good weekend,

                                        Brian

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:18:36AM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> > "dumps too big" - the planner decided that there wasn't enough room
> > on the tape for all of the partitions given its estimates so it decided
> > to skip this one partition for the day.
> 
> Sort of.  The complete message was, "dumps too big, 4637885 KB,
> but cannot incremental dump new disk".  Indeed, planner decided
> there wasn't enough room on the tape, so it tried to bump
> /usr3/agrawal from a full dump to an incremental to save space.
> But it couldn't do that because it was a new DLE -- you can't do
> an incremental dump without a full dump backing it (or if you
> did, no space would be saved).
> 
> So the DLE was skipped because there wasn't room for a full dump
> *and* the DLE in question couldn't be bumped to an incremental.