jp.pozzi AT izzop DOT net wrote:
> Le jeudi 22 mars 2007 à 20:13 -0400, Gene Heskett a écrit :
>> On Thursday 22 March 2007, storm66 AT club-internet DOT fr wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> One backup partly failed with :
>>>
>>> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>>>  k400  /mnt/d_mails  lev 1  FAILED [dumps way too big, 1025270 KB, must
>>> skip incremental dumps]
>>>  k400  /home/jpp     lev 1  FAILED [dumps way too big, 1116100 KB, must
>>> skip incremental dumps]
>>>  k400  /etc          lev 0  STRANGE
>>>
>>> for some other directories and machines the backup is OK.
>>> What is the problem ?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Storm66
>> Your kernel version please?
> 
> Kernel 2.6.16 on the "master" machine, 2.6.18 and 2.6.20 on other
> machines.
> 
> Frank Smith asks for the size of tape I am using : it is a virtual tape
> on a separate disk whth more than 100G avalaible.

The physical disk it's on may be big enough , but is the length of
your vtapes in your tapetype set to something larger than 1 GB?

Frank

> 
> Regards
> 
> Storm66
> 


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