I added
tapebufs 50
to amanda.conf after the labelstr line, and this is the output I'm
getting now:


FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  taper: FATAL shmget: (1638600 tapebufs) No space left on device
  amflush: ERROR Cannot flush without tape.  Try again.

Shang-Lin

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 17:02 -0400, Scott R. Burns wrote:
> Try
> 
> tapebufs 50
> 
> In your amanda.conf file
> 
> Scott...
> 
> Scott R. Burns
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shang-Lin Chen [mailto:schen AT gps.caltech DOT edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 4:21 PM
> To: Paul Bijnens
> Subject: Re: no space left on device during amflush
> 
> 
> > Shang-Lin Chen wrote:
> > >   taper: FATAL shmget: (655440 tapebufs) No space left on device
> > 
> > The default value for tapebufs is 20 (buffers of 32K bytes each).
> > You probably got some weird value in amanda.conf for that parameter.
> > 
> > The above value results if over 20 GByte of RAM.
> > 
> My amanda.conf file doesn't set anything for tapebufs, and I've never
> had this problem before. How do I change the tapebufs setting?
> 
> Thanks,
> Shang-Lin
> > 
>