Le dimanche 25 mars 2007 à 14:12 -0400, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> 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.

Hello,

The try was OK, virtual tapes must have a defines size as there is (I
think there is) a default size when no tapetype is specified.

Thanks

Storm66