I recently added a directory to be backed up and this is the message that
I get..

I have a holding disk with 15GB space (reserving 30% for degraded mode
dumps) and I am using a Surestore DAT 24 tape drive with DDS-3 tapes.

I saw the work around in the FAQ, but google turned up this
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/30947

which said that it may have something to do with the tape definition which
is...


define tapetype HP-DAT24 {
        comment "HP SureStore DAT 24" #disabled compression
        length 12288 mbytes
        filemark 0 kbytes
        speed 1024 kbytes
}


So, it would seem that even if the Level 1 dump is 5.8 gigs (according to
the planner) I shuold be able to handle it.

Does anyone know how to correct this?

Thanks and best regards,
Jason Pickering

Here is the report...


FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
jtlinux.SI //yinling/MyDocuments lev 1 FAILED [dumps way too big, must skip
incremental dumps]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:05
Run Time (hrs:min)         3:51
Dump Time (hrs:min)        1:47       0:37       1:09
Output Size (meg)       10908.0     4595.9     6312.1
Original Size (meg)     13242.7     6705.8     6536.9
Avg Compressed Size (%)    66.6       68.5       20.4   (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped            6          1          5   (1:5)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      1743.9     2104.8     1550.4

Tape Time (hrs:min)        3:07       1:19       1:48
Tape Size (meg)         10908.2     4595.9     6312.3
Tape Used (%)              88.8       37.4       51.4   (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Taped             6          1          5   (1:5)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)   996.8      995.8      997.5

DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
jtlinux.SIMT -ble/jasonp 1  590240 590272   --   10:18 955.1   9:52 996.4
jtlinux.SIMT -design/rct 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
jtlinux.SIMT -yDocuments 1 58145205814560   --   56:271716.9  96:55 999.8
jtlinux.SIMT -yDocuments 1 FAILED ---------------------------------------
jtlinux.SIMT /etc        1     690    128  18.6   0:21   3.7   0:06  21.2
jtlinux.SIMT /home       0 68667004706208  68.5  37:162104.8  78:46 995.8
jtlinux.SIMT /var        1  287750  58688  20.4   2:19 422.9   1:00 976.8
jtlinux.SIMT hda6        1     580    128  22.1   0:04  22.1   0:06  20.9

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