So here is an interesting problem.

Up until a couple weeks ago we had no problems at all running
amdump on this system. Recently however its reporting that
/maildb2 is too large for the tape.

The confusing part to me though is that that is not the largest 
partition, the largest /maildb, which has about 50% greater disk
occupancy, dumps without any problem at all.

> df -kl
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d10      7789512 2501372 5210245    33%    /
/proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
swap                 7647720       8 7647712     1%    /var/run
swap                 8580504  932792 7647712    11%    /tmp
/dev/md/dsk/d60      70555171 26346335 43503285    38%    /maildb2
/dev/md/dsk/d40      52421967 32849775 19047973    64%    /maildb
/dev/dsk/c1t4d0s0    35251498    8441 34890543     1%    /amanda/work
/dev/md/dsk/d30      17408538 6540222 10694231    38%    /export/home

Any idea what amdump is choking on this partition ?

                                                thanks,

                                                Brian


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These dumps were to tape NOTES_DLT08.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: NOTES_DLT09.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  wcnotes    /maildb2 lev 1 FAILED [dumps way too big, must skip incremental 
dumps]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:03
Run Time (hrs:min)         6:26
Dump Time (hrs:min)        5:18       0:00       5:18
Output Size (meg)       20491.0        0.0    20491.0
Original Size (meg)     35425.2        0.0    35425.2
Avg Compressed Size (%)    57.8        --        57.8   (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped            3          0          3   (1:2 2:1)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      1100.1        --      1100.1

Tape Time (hrs:min)        1:11       0:00       1:11
Tape Size (meg)         20491.1        0.0    20491.1
Tape Used (%)              62.1        0.0       62.1   (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Taped             3          0          3   (1:2 2:1)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)  4944.0        --      4944.0


NOTES:
  planner: Incremental of wcnotes:/maildb bumped to level 2.
  taper: tape NOTES_DLT08 kb 20982848 fm 3 [OK]


DUMP SUMMARY:
                                      DUMPER STATS                TAPER STATS 
HOSTNAME DISK           L   ORIG-KB    OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS   KB/s MMM:SS   KB/s
------------------------ --------------------------------------- -------------
wcnotes /              1       927       128  13.8   1:14    1.7   0:02   64.4
wcnotes /export/home   1   4665087   1851744  39.7  32:03  962.8   6:13 4969.9
wcnotes /maildb        2  31609440  19130880  60.5 284:35 1120.4  64:29 4944.7
wcnotes /maildb2       1 FAILED ----------------------------------------------

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