On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 at 5:12pm, David.Lee AT arvatousa DOT com wrote

> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   hostcat        /dev/ida/c0d0p2 lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than tape, but
> cannot incremental dump new disk]
>   planner: FATAL cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out
> STATISTICS: ...
> 
> Any suggestion?

Yes.  Don't try to back up partitions that are larger than your tape.  
Amanda can't span tapes.

Use tar and split the partition up into multiple backup points.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University