I used amanda 2.4.2p2 with a DDS-3 tape drive to do a full backup of my
Linux last night. In the amanda.conf file, I used chg-manual as the changer
with 3 tapes. My /export/home folder has 23GB data. I had labeled three
tapes (Tape-01, Tape-02, Tape-03) and then start the backup. 3 hours later,
she asked me to insert backup tape into slot 1. When amdump completed, I got
the following report.
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These dumps were to tapes Tape-01, Tape-02, Tape-03.
The next 3 tapes Amanda expects to used are: a new tape, a new tape, a new
tape.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  localhost  /export/home lev 0 FAILED [too many taper retries]
...
NOTES:
  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/boot.
  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/usr.
  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/.
  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/export/home.
  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/home.
  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/var.
  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/opt.
  taper: tape Tape-01 kb 12013824 fm 7 writing file: No space left on device
  taper: retrying localhost:/export/home.0 on new tape: [writing file: No
space left on device]
  taper: tape Tape-02 kb 12004832 fm 1 writing file: No space left on device
  taper: retrying localhost:/export/home.0 on new tape: [writing file: No
space left on device]
  taper: tape Tape-03 kb 0 fm 0 [OK]
  driver: Could not rmdir /mnt/hdc1/20020911: Directory not empty
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She could not backup my /export/home folder into multiple tapes. Anybody
knows why?

Best Regards,

Alvin K. T. Ko