Hi,

after running amanda for over a year now, without any trouble, I get an error 
message:
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FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  localhost  sda6 lev 0 FAILED ["data write: File too large"]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:24       0:00       0:03   (0:02 start, 0:19 
idle)
Output Size (meg)         392.0        0.0      392.0
Original Size (meg)      1817.6        0.0     1817.6
Avg Compressed Size (%)    19.3        --        19.3
Tape Used (%)               1.9        0.0        1.9   (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped           14          0         14   (1:14)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)       295.8        --       295.8
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)  2366.0        --      2366.0


FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:

/-- localhost  sda6 lev 0 FAILED ["data write: File too large"]
sendbackup: start [localhost:sda6 level 0]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/sbin/restore -f... -
sendbackup: info end
|   DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Aug 23 19:05:20 2002
|   DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
|   DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda6 (/usr) to standard output
|   DUMP: Label: none
|   DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
|   DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
|   DUMP: estimated 2072522 tape blocks.
|   DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Fri Aug 23 19:05:21 2002
|   DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
|   DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
|   DUMP: 52.72% done, finished in 0:04
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I'm not aware of any substantial changes on that partition.
Dump mode is "nocomp-user". It's a RH 6.2 system with kernel 2.2.16-3smp #1 
SMP. Could the 2 GB filesize limitation be the reason?
Is there any docu where I can find explanations regarding error messages?

Kind regards

-- 
Rainer Hofmann

Chemisches Labor Dr.Merten GmbH
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79104 Freiburg

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