On Wednesday 11 September 2002 23:03, Alvin Ko wrote:
>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.
>---
>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
>---
>She could not backup my /export/home folder into multiple tapes.
> Anybody knows why?
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Alvin K. T. Ko

How big is /export/home?  If its bigger than your DDS3 tape, you 
will have to break that entry up into even smaller pieces.

Basicly, amanda cannot span more than one tape with a single 
filesystem, and probably never will.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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