Re: dump larger than tape

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:04:01AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven enlightened us:
> > I just got this in my daily report from Amanda (2.4.5-1, Debian 
> > etch/testing):
> > 
> > | FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> > | 
> > |     [...]
> > | 
> > |   <host>     <dle> lev 5 FAILED [dump larger than tape, -1 KB, skipping 
> > incremental]
> > | 
> > |     [...]
> > | 
> > | DUMP SUMMARY:
> > | 
> > |     [...]
> > | 
> > | <host>     <dle>    5 FAILED 
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > | 
> > |     [...]
> > 
> > The funny thing is that this DLE is only about 5 GiB large (according to
> > du), while the tapetype length is 20000 mbytes.
> > 
> > Anyone ever seen this before?
> > 
> 
> Yes. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154882
> 
> Without more details we can't tell if that's it, though :-)

It's not that one, since I don't have a 64-bit system.

However, after sending the email I realized the probable cause of the problem:
I started using server side estimates a few weeks ago, so the estimate can
easily be larger than the actual data. And then it's larger than the tape size,
Amanda will just refuse to back it up, right?

Anyway, it happened again last night. I just disabled server side estimates,
and will see what happens this night.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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