Amanda-Users

DUMP and GNUTAR fail if backup > about 50GB

2006-02-08 08:02:24
Subject: DUMP and GNUTAR fail if backup > about 50GB
From: "Sebastian Koesters" <skoesters AT sino DOT de>
To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 07:15:35 +0100
Hi

I have to backup about 80GB of Data from one Server.

As Program i tried DUMP and GNUTAR but if amanda wants to make a level 0
Backup it always fails.

These dumps were to tape DailySet166.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet161.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  pst        /pst RESULTS MISSING


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    1:12
Run Time (hrs:min)         1:12
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0
Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         -- 
Filesystems Dumped            0          0          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)         --         --         -- 

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
Filesystems Taped             0          0          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         -- 

USAGE BY TAPE:
  Label             Time      Size      %    Nb
  DailySet166       0:00       0.0    0.0     0



DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS 
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
pst          /pst          MISSING --------------------------------------

But if Amanda wants to make a Level 1 or 2 or.... (about 30 GB) everything
works fine. How is this possible? Is there any size limiting with gnutar and
dump?! 

Regards Sebastian