Jon,
   The disks are all raid arrays and are between 75-90% full.
   I have the changer configured in the 'amanda.conf' .

   I'm not sure If amanda knows to use more than one tape.

thanks,
chrisj


Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:19:05AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote:

Hi group,

I finally got SCO unix to perform a dump via amanda client. Thank you everyone for your help.

  Now that the first dump somewhat worked I have more questions.

Two of the file systems had errors dumping. I am attempting to backup 2x 45GB and 2x 9 GB file systems. I'm using a DLT tape changer. The errors came backs as:

*hostname* /u lev 0 FAILED [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump new disk] *hostname* /u5 lev 0 FAILED [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump new disk]

These are one one of each size file system (/u=9GB, /u5=45GB) so amanda did dump both a 9GB and a 45GB file system to the tape. I was hoping that amanda would load the another tape to finnish the dump but only one tape was used. The report emailed to me said that only 60% of the tape was used. Why didn't the one of the other two tapes get used? If you need my "tape type" configuration or any other info I'll send it.

BTW I'm guessing that your 9 and 45 refer to allocated size, not amount
of data on the disk.  Who cares about how big the disk is, it is the
amount of data on the disk that matters.

Does amanda know you have a changer?

What changer configuration have you set up.

Is it working with the amtape command to load
specific slots, next slot, eject, taper, ...

Does amanda know it is allowed to use more than one tape?