gnutar and sendsize

Hi

Bear with me on this. I've inherited a system to look after and I'mnew to Amanda.

I'm using gnutar to backup a ~50Gb filesystem. Unfortunately it won'tbackup due to..

/home lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than tape, but cannot incremental dumpnew disk]


I have compression set on in the dumptype configuration as follows

define dumptype comp-user-tar {
 program "GNUTAR"
 comment "partitions dumped with tar"
 options compress-fast, index, exclude-list "/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar"
 priority medium
}

The file system should compress to around 17Gb and will fit on the tapeno problem. I had a look at the sendsize report and it showed thatduring the size estimate, it didn't use compression.

sendsize: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory/home --one-file-system --listed-incremental/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/fs0_home_0.new --sparse--ignore-failed-read --totals .


Total bytes written: 49292472320 (46GB, 46MB/s)

I believe that it thinks that the size will be 46Gb which will not fitthe tape.

Is there a way to bypass this or force compression during sendsize? Ismy dumptype configuration correct?


Thanks

Kee