Out of tape really means out of tape. Appends are really unlikely, as AMANDA
starts the tape write with a rewind followed by a write. No seek, no foul,
no append. (Unless you have the append patch.)

Is it possible you have hardware compression turned on? This can cause
problems if you also use software compression: the dumps tend to take more
space. 

DDS3 is supposed to be good for 12Gb. Is it possible you have some DDS2
tapes mixed in? (This can happen with inherited systems)

If it were my tape, I'd put a note on the hard copy of the report, and watch
that tape next time it runs. If it gets the same error, I'd replace the
media. A reformat/retension might work, but those tapes are cheap enough
that it's not worth it. 

Watch the next night's run to make sure this might not be a drive that needs
cleaning or adjustment. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Nasman [mailto:keith AT ahapala DOT net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 6:41 PM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: tape rotation and no space left
> 
> 
> 
> I might have missed this in the FAQ-O-Matic.
> 
> I have a 20 tape rotation on which I do full backups each night(I'm
> backing up about 10Gb on DDS3 tapes). I got this error this 
> morning. It
> looks to me that amanda isn't overwriting DailySet100 but 
> appending it.
> With 20 full backups, I really want amanda to check for the 
> right tape and
> then overwrite it if it is the right one. How do I set this up? 
> 
> Amanda works so well that I really just feed tapes and do a 
> amrecover once
> in a while. :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith
> 
> A clip of my report follows:
> 
> These dumps were to tape DailySet100.
> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]].
> Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
> Run amflush to flush them to tape.
> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet101.
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   localhost  //ntmachine/Users lev 0 STRANGE
>   localhost  //ntmachine/Company lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
>   localhost  //ntmachine/Company lev 0 FAILED ["data write: 
> Connection 
> reset by peer"]
>   localhost  //ntmachine/Company lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
> 
> 
> STATISTICS:
>                           Total       Full      Daily
>                         --------   --------   --------
> Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:01
> Run Time (hrs:min)         1:19
> Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:24       0:24       0:00
> Output Size (meg)         969.7      969.7        0.0
> Original Size (meg)      1764.2     1764.2        0.0
> Avg Compressed Size (%)    55.0       55.0        -- 
> Filesystems Dumped            7          7          0
> Avg Dump Rate (k/s)       682.7      682.7        -- 
> 
> Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:39       0:39       0:00
> Tape Size (meg)           969.9      969.9        0.0
> Tape Used (%)               9.8        9.8        0.0
> Filesystems Taped             7          7          0
> Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)   426.6      426.6        -- 
> 
> 
>