[sorry for the scatological reference.]

My regular backup process last night produced 17 files of about 1GB each for my 
server tobaccodev. (Listing pasted in at the end of this note.) I tried 
flushing this to my DDS-4 tapes, but was not able to do this. I got these notes 
in the emailed report:
  driver: WARNING: /dumps/amanda2: not 1024 KB free.
  taper: tape DBackup11 kb 16766592 fm 1 writing file: No space left on device
  driver: Taper  error: "[writing file: No space left on device]"

I tried both flushing all the dumps, and just the one for tobaccodev, without 
success.

My questions are
1) Don't understand why I can't flush less than 20GB of data to my tapes which 
are supposed to hold 20GB raw and more compressed. I have compression turned 
off on the drive. I thought I was compressing the dumps, but I just checked the 
disklist and amanda.conf and found I wasn't.
2) Is there any way to compress the files now on the holdingdisk before they're 
taped?

Any other advice or suggestions?

Thanks for helping me.

-Kevin

Kevin Zembower
Internet Services Group manager
Center for Communication Programs
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, Maryland  21202
410-659-6139

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backup@centernet:~$ ls -laR /dumps/
/dumps/:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  4   1001 disk   4096 Nov 30  2006 .
drwxr-xr-x 28 root   root   4096 Jun  5  2008 ..
drwxr-xr-x  6 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 11:45 amanda
drwxr-xr-x  4 backup backup 4096 Dec 15 22:31 amanda2

/dumps/amanda:
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 6 backup backup  4096 Dec 16 11:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 4   1001 disk    4096 Nov 30  2006 ..
drwx------ 2 backup backup  4096 Dec 15 20:16 20081215181501
drwx------ 2 backup backup  4096 Dec 16 08:54 20081216085440
drwx------ 2 backup backup  4096 Dec 16 11:45 20081216114526
drwx------ 2 backup backup 16384 Sep 11  2006 lost+found

/dumps/amanda/20081215181501:
total 3851432
drwx------ 2 backup backup       4096 Dec 15 20:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 backup backup       4096 Dec 16 11:45 ..
-rw------- 1 backup backup  560758182 Dec 15 20:15 
tobacco._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0
-rw------- 1 backup backup   43935157 Dec 15 20:16 
tobacco._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol01.0
-rw------- 1 backup backup  119436082 Dec 15 20:15 
tobacco._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol03.0
-rw------- 1 backup backup    6001456 Dec 15 20:15 
tobacco._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol04.2
-rw------- 1 backup backup   24152255 Dec 15 20:16 
tobacco._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol05.1
-rw------- 1 backup backup    9616939 Dec 15 20:16 tobacco._dev_sda2.0
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073745920 Dec 15 20:01 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.14
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 20:07 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.15
-rw------- 1 backup backup  390398792 Dec 15 20:12 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.16
-rw------- 1 backup backup      33177 Dec 15 20:12 tobaccodev._dev_sda1.1
-rw------- 1 backup backup  233788870 Dec 15 20:16 
www._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.1
-rw------- 1 backup backup      35798 Dec 15 20:16 
www._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol08.2
-rw------- 1 backup backup  404276705 Dec 15 20:14 
www._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol09.0

/dumps/amanda/20081216085440:
total 8
drwx------ 2 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 08:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 11:45 ..

/dumps/amanda/20081216114526:
total 8
drwx------ 2 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 11:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 11:45 ..

/dumps/amanda/lost+found:
total 20
drwx------ 2 backup backup 16384 Sep 11  2006 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 backup backup  4096 Dec 16 11:45 ..

/dumps/amanda2:
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 4 backup backup  4096 Dec 15 22:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 4   1001 disk    4096 Nov 30  2006 ..
drwx------ 2 backup backup  4096 Dec 15 20:12 20081215181501
drwx------ 2 backup backup 16384 Sep 11  2006 lost+found

/dumps/amanda2/20081215181501:
total 14596768
drwx------ 2 backup backup       4096 Dec 15 20:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 backup backup       4096 Dec 15 22:31 ..
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 18:25 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 18:32 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.1
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:36 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.10
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:42 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.11
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:48 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.12
-rw------- 1 backup backup  973795328 Dec 15 19:54 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.13
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 18:39 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.2
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 18:47 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.3
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 18:55 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.4
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:02 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.5
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:09 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.6
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:16 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.7
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:23 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.8
-rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:29 
tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.9

/dumps/amanda2/lost+found:
total 20
drwx------ 2 backup backup 16384 Sep 11  2006 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 backup backup  4096 Dec 15 22:31 ..
backup@centernet:~$