On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 07:06:24AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:13:32PM +0200, Harri Haataja wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:43:43AM +0100, Christoph Scheeder wrote:
> > > for me your amanda-report looks quite normal for the situation
> > > you're in.  Amanda wrote 11,5GB of data to the tape, then ran into
> > > eot. This is a quite normal volume for 125meter/dds-3-tapes.
> > That would be a good explanation. But where can I see the amount of
> > data it got? The backups aren't on holding disk either, so it seems
> > that many disks (dirs) are not getting backed up at all.
> > > The rest of the report shows amanda is completely out of sync, and
> > > it will try to get as much fulls of your disks as possible in the
> > > next runs.  I think in a few days she will get back to her normal
> > > tapeusage.
> > I'll clip the report a bit..

> You clipped too much.  Here is the line from your original message:
> >>   taper: tape sksp_023 kb 11504832 fm 10 writing file: No space left on 
> >> device
> 
> It indicates that 10 file marks, "fm 10" were written, one for the
> tape header and 9 for the disklist entries successfully written to the
> tape.  Then on the 10th DLE it hit end of tape.  At the time it hit
> EOT, it had written total (successful plus failed) 11.5 GB.
> 
> So that 10th DLE must be huge.

A-ha!  That explains what I was missing. I'll try to find out what has
grown that much.

Thank you. amanda-users is indeed a wonderful resource. Many brains/eyes
being better than one at spotting and remembering things and all that :)

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