Hi All,

I have recently had this filesystem "run out of tape", when I know that's
impossible as the native capacity of the AIT drive is 35GB. I was
wondering if there is a 32 bit limit to the size of a single filesystem that
amanda
can backup? That's all I can think of, for why it should suddenly
stop working. I have 25 schedules across 5 x AIT tape drives and
they all work beyond this capacity ... the only difference being that they have
multiple filesystems to backup. This schedule has 1 filesystem that is
large:


These dumps were to tape schedule20-WEEK6.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: short write]].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: schedule20-WEEK1.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  pambula    /u26 lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
Run Time (hrs:min)         7:26
Dump Time (hrs:min)        4:21       4:21       0:00
Output Size (meg)       32884.0    32884.0        0.0
Original Size (meg)     32884.0    32884.0        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         --
Filesystems Dumped            1          1          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      2153.3     2153.3        --

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
  schedule20-WEEK6       0:00       0.0    0.0     0


NOTES:
  taper: tape schedule20-WEEK6 kb 32010400 fm 1 writing file: short write
  driver: going into degraded mode because of tape error.


DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
pambula      /u26        0 3367318433673184   --  260:382153.3  FAILED  ----

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p2)





Has anyone else had this problem? It's not the tape .... I've changed
that (last week) and the problem still persists ... seems to have only
happened as the filesystem has filled to this large size.

thanks

geoffs :-)
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