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John Hein wrote:

John Hein wrote at 16:00 -0700 on Dec 13, 2008:
 > Tim Bunnell wrote at 17:03 -0500 on Dec 13, 2008:
 >  > Folks,

> > > > We're running Amanda (version 2.5.1p1) on a Debian Linux system with an > > 8-tape AIT-2 library. We have around 314GB spread over two file systems > > that we are attempting to backup in one run across as many tapes as > > necessary. We're using gzip compression and expect it will take 5-6 > > tapes to complete (there's a fair amount of audio and image data that > > doesn't compress too well). > > > > I think we have the config files set up correctly, but it seems like no > > matter what we do, the run stops (after about 16 hours) and reports that > > it's out of tape. I don't think it has ever succeeded in spanning more > > than 4 tapes before giving us the error. I see nothing in the .debug > > output for the changer that looks different for any tapes it changes. > > > > I'm sort of at a loss for where to start looking for the problem, and > > what to look for. Any suggestions from the list? > > Do you really know the tape capacity for your tapes?

 > Some AIT-2 flavors are 36 GB, some are 50 GB, it seems.
 > 36*8 < 314

> > Have you run amtapetype to verify?

 >  (see http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions)
 > Do you have hardware compression off?

Sorry, I just re-read and saw that it only used 4 tapes.
What is runtapes set to?
Somewhere in the logs, it should explain why it's not
going past 4.

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