On Monday 28 February 2005 13:35, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
>Hi, all!
>
>I've been running dumps to hard disk using chg-multi & stuff for
> about a year now, very good, no complaints.
>
>But recently, suddenly, one of the computers I back up is failing.
>Here's what's in the e-mail:
>
>
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>These dumps were to tape DailySet109.
>The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet110.
>
>FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>  <servername> /m1 lev 1 FAILED [dump larger than tape, -1 KB,
> skipping incremental]
>  <servername> /export/home lev 1 FAILED [dump larger than tape, -1
> KB, skipping incremental]
>  <servername> /usr/local lev 1 FAILED [dump larger than tape, -1
> KB, skipping incremental]
>  <servername> / lev 1 FAILED [dump larger than tape, -1 KB,
> skipping incremental]
>
>  <servername> /var lev 0 FAILED [/usr/local/bin/tar returned 2]
>  <servername> /var lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
>
>.
>.
>.
>
>FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
>
>/-- mole.lib.p /services lev 1 STRANGE
>sendbackup: start [mole.lib.purdue.edu:/services level 1]
>sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
>sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/tar -f... -
>sendbackup: info end
>? gtar: ./purl/dist-2.14-linux-intel/WebRoot/logs/access_log: file
>changed as we read it
>
>| Total bytes written: 168099840 (160MB, 7.0MB/s)
>
>sendbackup: size 164160
>sendbackup: end
>\--------
>
>
>
>
>/-- <servername> /var lev 0 FAILED [/usr/local/bin/tar returned 2]
>sendbackup: start [<servername>:/var level 0]
>sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/local/bin/tar
>sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/local/bin/tar -f... -
>sendbackup: info end
>? gtar:
>/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/luke.lib.purdue.edu_var_0.new:
> Cannot write: No space left on device
>
>| Total bytes written: 3040256000 (2.8GB, 8.9MB/s)
>
>? gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>sendbackup: error [/usr/local/bin/tar returned 2]
>\--------
>
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>Now, the disks I'm using to do my backups is not full. Nowhere near
>full; I've got 112Gb free on it. I doubt the filesystem on the
> target system is THAT full... I will doublecheck though. Any
> immediate thoughts?
>
>Wab.

You will also get this error when using the FILE: tapetype if the 
tapesize isn't large enough.  is it?

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