Alexander Jolk wrote:

Vicki Stanfield wrote:

I'm guessing that the holding area isn't big enough (which I had been told before I admit, but since it's on its own partition I haven't done anything about it). I remember hearing that you can combine two holding areas as one; is that possible for me to add space from another drive and combine it with my current holding area?

Just add a second holding disk to your amanda.conf, amand will use both of them.

That's not your problem though; please follow Joshua's advice first. Your dump simply is larger than your tape, and there's nothing a holding disk can do about that. You need to split your DLE into smaller pieces using GNUTAR and possibly exclude lists, and you'll need to delete this too-large dump file from your holding disk. And you probably have hardware and software compression mixed up, but we cannot be sure without getting more info.

Alex

The whole tape definition is:
# our tape definition
define tapetype HP-C5683A {
       comment "DDS-4 DAT tape"
       length 16584 mbytes
       filemark 452 kbytes
       speed 2613 kbytes
}

Vicki