On Fri, 30 May 2003 at 10:38am, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote

> > But from the previous mails we found out, ananda did send the 
> > estimate 
> > before timing out.
> > So planner set all up to include 5.6 GByte from this host 
> > too. And that seems to be too much for 11976 Mbyte tape 
> > capacity. So planner degraded one of the backups, and planned 
> > an incremental one instead.
> 
> I'm not even addressing the timeout issue...that just will not
> resolve...
> I'm more concerned with why my 12GB tape will not backup ~5.8GB today,
> when it backed up ~5.9GB last night and every night since April, when it
> was backing up well over 10GB. This very tape, isymmdaily01, in its last
> rotation, backed up 5923MB. What I'm trying to find out is why 5.6 GB
> 'seems to be too much for the 11976 Mbyte tape capacity'. If it's a
> media error, I'll pull the tape...I'm asking if this could be indicative
> of something else.

Ah, but what Pual is saying is that they're related.  If you add up what 
did get backed up plus the disk that failed with the data timeout (but got 
an estimate), you're at capacity.  So the full of that /var wouldn't fit, 
so amanda degraded it.

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