On Thursday 16 June 2005 08:28, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator 
wrote:
>Hi just posted it

Where?  It didn't make it to here so we can verify what you have.

>When I first configured I did rub the command that took for ever and
> a day.
>
>But I did have a 20gb tape in the drive.

Two things Chuck:

1) did you transfer the results into a new tapetype verse in your 
amanda.conf?

2)  Is the '?' key broken on your keyboard?  We are infering from the 
words that you are asking a question, but it would be nicer if it was 
properly marked.

>Cheers
>
>Is there a way to reset it as I have edited the
>
>On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:20 +0200, Montagni, Giovanni wrote:
>> Have you ever run amtapetype command? it seems amanda doesn't
>> recognize entire tape lenght...
>>
>> could paste us your tape definition?
>>
>> another stupid thing, is the tape rewinded?
>>
>> Giovanni
>>
>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> Da: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]Per conto di Chuck Amadi
>> Systems Administrator
>> Inviato: giovedì 16 giugno 2005 14.03
>> A: Amanda List
>> Oggetto: dump larger than tape, 2867765 KB, but cannot incremental
>> dump newdisk
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi I have tried backing up "/" using the disklist
>> with a 20GB DDS-4 150MM DAT tape and I get this error below.
>> The size is only 3GB
>>
>> Is there a level I need to adjust in the amanda.conf file.
>>
>> sever.domain.co.uk:/ 0 planner: [dump larger than tape, 2867765
>> KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk]
>>
>> Cheers

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