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RE: Dump too big for tape

2003-05-30 10:49:16
Subject: RE: Dump too big for tape
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Rebecca Pakish Crum <rebecca AT unterlaw DOT com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 10:44:56 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 30 May 2003 at 9:42am, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote

> > Nope, that's normal.  Output Size is the size of all the dump 
> > images.  
> > Remember that amanda puts a 32KB header on each of those 
> > before they go to 
> > tape.  10 filesystems * 32KB is 320KB, or about .3 MB.  QED.
> 
> Yeah, output size should be fine...not even 6 gigs on a 12 gig tape that
> used to be backing up almost 11 successfully. That's my concern. Even
> with the .3 megs amanda is throwing on there, I'm not even coming close
> to tape end.

Well, how big is that /var?

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


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