Sorry - I didn't mean to contradict Jon LaBadie or cause confusion.
There are two messages which always seem similar to me and I'd believed
that I was talking about the correct one.

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:00:05PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> 
> Dump larger than tape is "the sum of the dumps is projected to be
> larger than the tape capacity" therefore something will be skipped.
> 
> It will eventually get to tape but you might want to tell us a little
> bit more, number/capacity of the partitions in the disklist, tape
> capacity, runs/cycle, dumpcycle from amanda.conf.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:35:17PM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
> > I am running Amanda on a network that I administer. I don't have a lot
> > of Amanda experience, having always used afio scripts that I wrote. I
> > inherited this backup config and am trying to get up to speed on it. I
> > see several of these messages stating that the dump is being delayed.
> > Obviously I want to ensure that the dump eventually makes it to tape. Is
> > there an amanda command to tell me this? 
> > 
> > planner: Dump larger than tape: full dump of
> > +mymachine:/home delayed.
> > 
> > Vicki
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