On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:05:01PM -0800, Yan Lam wrote:
> Currently, I have Amanda doing backups with two tape drives ( both are
> DLT7000 drives).  I noticed that Amanda deferred many level 0 backups with
> the "...[dumps too big, full dump delayed]" in the log file.
> 
> The first tape is filled; however, the second tape only taped 8GB of data.
> 
> My question is that if Amanda is setup to use both tape drives (both tapes),
> wouldn't Amanda will try to fill up both tape as much as possible instead of
> postpone the level0 backups?

More likely the estimated size of the dump of that disklist entry (DLE) was
larger than would fit on the tape.

Remember that amanda can not backup a DLE that is larger than a single tape.
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