I seem to have Amanda happily configured to use my changer.  I labelled
all the tapes, the labelinfo process went fine, etc...

So, to test, I set up one partition to backup in the disklist,
/usr/local on the local host.  I set it up as a nocomp-root dump type
(this is the appropriate one for slow-changing files with no software
compression, right?).  I then ran

# amdump CIS 

and in a few minutes got an email report showing that 47MB had been
dumped as a Full dump.  Whee!

On the heels of this success, I created a little junk file under
/usr/local, and ran 'amdump CIS' again....got a failure email.  Dumped a
lot more data into the directory /usr/local/junk (about 300 megs worth),
and ran it again...got another failure email...I've included one below. 
Can anyone tell me why it's not doing the daily/incremental backups
properly?  The error msg indicates that the dump is larger than the
tape, -1 KB.

The changer is working properly and it is retrieving and loading the
correct tapes on each execution, so I don't think it's a changer
problem.

Below is a sample error email...

Thanks, Fran

> Subject: CIS AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR December 22, 2003
> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:09:24 -0600
> 
> These dumps were to tape CIS-005.
> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: CIS-006.
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   keep.cis.u /usr/local lev 1 FAILED [dump larger than tape, -1 KB, skipping 
> incremental]
>   planner: FATAL cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out
> 
> 
> STATISTICS:
>                           Total       Full      Daily
>                         --------   --------   --------
> Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
> Run Time (hrs:min)         0:03
> Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
> Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0
> Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0
> Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         -- 
> Filesystems Dumped            0          0          0
> Avg Dump Rate (k/s)         --         --         -- 
> 
> Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
> Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
> Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
> Filesystems Taped             0          0          0
> Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         -- 
> 
> USAGE BY TAPE:
>   Label         Time      Size      %    Nb
>   CIS-005       0:00       0.0    0.0     0
> 
> 
> NOTES:
>   driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner
>   taper: tape CIS-005 kb 0 fm 0 [OK]
> 
> 
> DUMP SUMMARY:
>                                      DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS 
> HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
> -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
> keep.cis.uab /usr/local  1 FAILED ---------------------------------------
> 
> (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1)
-- 

Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama - Birmingham
fran AT cis.uab DOT edu
(205) 934-0653