> Your 'tape' is full.  It doesn't necessarily mean the disk
> is full, it could be that your backups exceed your tape length.
> Look farther down in your report for the taper line and see if it
> wrote as many bytes as you specified for the length in your tapetype.
> If so, either increase your tape length (since you're really writing
> to a file instead of to a tape) or increase runtapes to write to
> multiple 'tapes'.

I have increased the length in tapetype from 10GB to 20GB but still got the 
same error as desc. before
 
The dumpsummary for just this server (awe) says:
***

                               DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS 
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
awe          /home       0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
awe          /httpd/conf 0     200     55  27.5   0:00 272.6   0:00 240.5
awe          -/local/adm 0      30      2   6.7   0:00   5.0   0:00   7.0
awe          -/lib/mysql 0  184160  22300  12.1   1:19 282.1   1:19 282.0
***

>From the end of my amanda log:
***
INFO taper tape backup09 kb 2188064 fm 30 writing file: short write
FAIL taper awe /home 20040828 0 [out of tape]
ERROR taper no-tape [[writing file: short write]]
FAIL driver awe /home 20040828 0 [dump to tape failed]
FAIL dumper awe /home 20040828 0 ["data write: Broken pipe"]
  sendbackup: start [awe:/home level 0]
  sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
  sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
  sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
  sendbackup: info end
FINISH driver date 20040828 time 2188.326
***
 
> I'm guessing you're not using a holding disk.  While it's not as
> necessary using the file driver, it would allow multiple dumps to
> occur in parallel, which can shorten your backup window (using a
> different disk is recommended to lessen I/O contention)

I am using hdb1 for my backup's (mounted FAT32 disk)
I am using hda2 as holding disk, this is my config in amanda.conf:

***
holdingdisk hda2 {
    comment "main holding disk"
    directory "/usr/local/etc/amanda/holdingdisk"       # where the holding 
disk is
    use -10 Mb          # how much space can we use on it
                        # a non-positive value means:
                        #        use all space but that value
    chunksize 10Gb      # size of chunk if you want big dump to be
                        # dumped on multiple files on holding disks
                        #  N Kb/Mb/Gb split images in chunks of size N
                        #             The maximum value should be
                        #             (MAX_FILE_SIZE - 1Mb)
                        #  0          same as INT_MAX bytes
    }
***

But the holdingdisk seems to be empty when Amanda tells me that some files may 
have been left in the holdingsdisk and that I should run amflush to flush them 
to tape.

\\Reidar