<quote who="Paul Bijnens">
> On 2006-08-11 17:27, Gavin Henry wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> We are trying to dump over 300GB to go across 2 tapes, as per:
>>
>> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes
>>
>> But keep getting:
>>
>> nas1:/storage/samba 0 planner: [dump larger than available tape space,
>> 280606560 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk]
>>
>> Our dumptype is:
>>
>> define dumptype user-tar-span {
>>    root-tar
>>    tape_splitsize 20 Gb
>>    comment "tape-spanning user partitions dumped with tar"
>>    priority medium
>> }
>>
>> Any tips?
>
> You probably still have "runtapes 1".  Increase it.
> Or set "maxdumpsize" to an appropriate value.

/me hides head in shame. I thought I did, must have been thinking of
runspercycle. Doh!

Thanks!

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