On Wednesday 29 January 2003 17:12, David.Lee AT arvatousa DOT com wrote:
>I got the error when ran amdump:
>
>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?

It sounds like you are useing 'dump' not tar.  In event the 
filesystem named is in fact bigger than a tape, then you must 
switch to tar, and describe that particular filesystem as a set of 
one more level deeper subdirs in you disklist file, in the form of 
FQDNs prefereably.  Amanda cannot span a single dumpfile (or 
tarfile for that matter) across multiple tapes, so you will need to 
make them tarfiles instead, which can be made smaller than a tape 
by the above subdir nameing convention.

Here is a snippet of my disklist to show what I mean:

coyote  /usr/bin        root-tar        2
coyote  /usr/dlds       root-tar        2
coyote  /usr/games      root-tar        2
coyote  /usr/gene       comp-root-tar   2
coyote  /usr/i386-glibc21-linux root-tar        2
coyote  /usr/include    comp-root-tar   2
coyote  /usr/kerberos   root-tar        2
coyote  /usr/lib        comp-root-tar   2
coyote  /usr/libexec    comp-root-tar   2
# the "amanda" directories below will be missed due to file locks
# so back them up seperately after amdump is finished and  
# the locks have been removed, I use a seperate script for that
coyote  /usr/local      comp-root-tar   2
coyote  /usr/man        root-tar        2
coyote  /usr/music      root-tar        2
coyote  /usr/pix        root-tar        2
coyote  /usr/sbin       root-tar        2
coyote  /usr/share      comp-root-tar   2
coyote  /usr/src        comp-root-tar   2
coyote  /usr/X11R6      comp-root-tar   2

I personally like to see the tarfiles no bigger than 1/4 of a tape 
because if it has to reach for the next tape, less space is wasted 
on the first tape, but thats just a personal preference. YMMV of 
course.  I also sort bigger files first for the same reason.

The '2' is the spindle number, and helps to keep amanda from 
thrashing a drive by haveing two proccesses fighting over access to 
one disk.  I have 2 physical drives in this machine, and /usr is on 
the second drive.

You can also see that I control the compression with choice of 
dumptype, leaving those that won't compress alone.

HTH

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