Lots to comment on.


On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:15:25PM -0400, Dustin Schuemann wrote:
> Im trying to backup to some virtual tapes.
> 
> My hard drive is 1.2 tb.

I presume you mean this is the size of the virtual tape (vtape)
drive (total size).

> 
> The /home directory on the remote host is 4 gigs.
> 

And that is a single DLE (DiskList Entry)?
> I want to run the backup every night and do a full backup on the first  
> night. I want to have a 7 day rotation.
> 
> When I run the backup I get this error.
> 
> 65.0.0.0 /home lev 0  FAILED "[dump larger than available tape space,  
> 2088825 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk]"
> 
> 
> This is what I have.
> 
> dumpcycle 7 days
> runspercycle 7
> 
> tapecycle 7 tapes 
>   

But what is the size of your vtapes defined to be?
How many have you created and labeled?

A single cycle of tapes is barely allowed by amanda.
You will get repeated messages like "only full backup
of /home about to be overwritten".  And when that
happens your older incrementals are of reduced value.
Should the taping fail, you would not have a full dump
either.

A better value would be something like tapecycle 15.
Or if you want to keep a months worth, over 28.
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