On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 at 10:07pm, Chris Jones wrote

> I am using Amanda (successfully) to back up my Fedora Core 2 PC and 
> (mostly) my Win2k PC. Where I am finding difficulty, however, is in 
> adding directories that contain spaces in the name to an existing or new 
> backup job. I am including the following line
> | localhost /export/Docs_and_Settings comp-user-tar
>  in my disklist which when I run amdump generates this message:
> 
> | FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> |  localhost  /export/Docs_and_Settings lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than 
> tape, 4759700 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk]
> |  planner: FATAL cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out
> 
> Needless to say, I am trying to dump to a disk that has currently got 
> 48Gb (approx) free space. Can anyone here cast some light on my problem?

And how big are your "tapes" listed to be in your tapetype?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University