On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 at 9:24am, Vicki Stanfield wrote

> I am having a problem with amanda leaving very large dumps in the 
> holding area and not writing them to tape. The tapes are 20/40GB tapes, 
> but a 23GB dump doesn't get written even though there is a blank tape 
> available. Even if I try to flush this dump, it runs for a long time and 
> then errors again with "No space left on device."

Are you using software or hardware compression?  What does your tapetype 
look like?

> The dumps were flushed to tapes Progeny01-0043, Progeny01-0044.
> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]].
> Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
> Run amflush again to flush them to tape.
> The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to used are: Progeny01-0020, Progeny01-0021.
*snip*

You clipped the *really* interesting part -- the line in the NOTES section 
from taper.  What's that line look like?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University