On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 at 3:39pm, Marvin Davenport wrote

> I am trying to perform a forced full backup on all
> disks in disklist to tapetype HARD-DISK
> 
> 
> define tapetype HARD-DISK  {
>     length 40000 mbytes
> }
>  
> there is 70GB available on the disk but I get this
> error on most of the files in the disklist
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   s2a.dotcom /home lev 0 FAILED [dumps too big, but
> cannot incremental 
> dump new disk]

What version of amanda, and what is your tapedev?

Most likely, this is what is going on:

Amanda wants to dump to your tapedev, but can't (b/c it doesn't exist, or 
some such), and so goes into "degraded mode".

In degraded mode, amanda by default reserves 100% of the disk for degraded 
mode dumps, which are incrementals only.

These are all new disks, so amanda can't do incrementals, and so FAILs all 
the disks.

Your options are:

1) Crank reserve down to 0, which should alleviate this problem, or

2) Use 2.4.3b3 ("b" is for beta), and its "file:" driver for tapedev, the
   details of which are in the included amanda(8) man page.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University