On Friday 22 September 2006 04:03, Matthew Claridge wrote:
  

Hi,

Hope someone can shed some light on this. Suddenly my backups have
started failing due to the tape running out of space:

*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]].
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
 server1.rwa /var lev 0 STRANGE
 server1.rwa /usr/local lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
 server1.rwa /usr/local lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Connection reset by
peer"] server1.rwa /usr/local lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

NOTES:
 taper: tape DailySet202 kb 34175264 fm 16 writing file: No space left
on device


However, I'm using an 80GB (uncompressed) VXA tape:

tapetype VXA2-V23       # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below)

define tapetype VXA2-V23 {
   comment "Exabyte VXA2 tape drive and V23 tapes"
   length 76209 mbytes
   filemark 3908 kbytes
   speed 3956 kps
}

Anyone have any ideas as to what's going on?

Thanks in advance,
Matt
    

Are you using an adequately sized holding disk?  Without that, the data 
rate to the tape might be slow enough that the drive is doing a lot of 
shoe-shining, which wastes space.  How big is it, and whats the setting 
for 'reserved' in your amanda.conf?