I am using 2.4.3b3 and file driver 

slot 1 file:/mnt/disk2/t01
slot 2 file:/mnt/disk2/t02
slot 3 file:/mnt/disk2/t03
slot 4 file:/mnt/disk2/t04
slot 5 file:/mnt/disk2/t05
slot 6 file:/mnt/disk2/t06
slot 7 file:/mnt/disk2/t07
slot 8 file:/mnt/disk2/t08
slot 9 file:/mnt/disk2/t09


--- Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


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