On Sunday 25 March 2007, jp.pozzi AT izzop DOT net wrote:
>Le vendredi 23 mars 2007 à 19:26 -0500, Frank Smith a écrit :
>> 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?
>
>Hello,
>
>I didn't use any tapetype parameter ... I will set one bigger enough and
>have a try.

That's an obvious miss-configuration then.  Here is the stanza I use:
----
runtapes        1   # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump
tpchanger       "chg-disk"
tapedev         "file:/amandatapes/Dailys/"
changerdev      "/dev/null"
changerfile     "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/chg-disk"

tapetype        HARD-DISK
----
This is defined fairly high up in the amanda.conf, then farther down, in 
the section that starts with:
# tapetypes
----
define tapetype HARD-DISK {
        comment "WD 200GB drive"
        lbl-templ "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/3hole.ps"
        length 9000 mbytes
}
----
The lbl-templ can be left out, I get a summary sheet on the printer for 
every run that I file and that's the form that amanda fills out and 
prints.

"/amandarapes/Dailys/" is /dev/hdd2, a 180GB partition mounted to 
mountpoint /amandatapes.

>Regards
>
>Storm66

I hope this is helpfull.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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