Interesting these are lto 3 tapes that are 400/800gig compressed. I find
it hard to believe that it cannot store them on a tape. 

Here is my definition of tapetype.

define tapetype Ultrium3-SCSI {
    comment "LTO Ultrium 3 400/800, compression on"
    length 401408 mbytes
    filemark 0 kbytes
    speed 74343 kps
}

Also,
For example,
The status says ...
prdapp04-bkup.1sync.org:/                    0  planner: [dumps too big,
4206630 KB, but cannot incremental dump
which is 4.1g and that should easily fit on the tape..


I'm pretty sure I'm using hardware compression. The device is a exabyte
magnum 224. Also how would I specify Amanda to use tape spanning?

thanks


-----Original Message-----
From: djmitche AT gmail DOT com [mailto:djmitche AT gmail DOT com] On Behalf Of 
Dustin
J. Mitchell
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 2:50 PM
To: Krahn, Anderson
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: dumps too big

> Does this mean my holding disk is too small?

Close -- it means that your tape is too small, or that you're not
using tape spanning.  Basically, Amanda has to do a full backup, but
can't fit that on the available tape.

Dustin

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