Amanda-Users

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda backup problem - a tape error occured

2008-12-19 11:34:34
Subject: Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda backup problem - a tape error occured
From: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:30:21 -0500
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:06 AM, mandaillou
<amanda-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
> On the forum, I found people facing the same problem and the error was 
> related to the tapecycle. Mine is 12 and I have 12 reusable tapes.

Right -- if you're doing 14 backups (2 weeks, every day), you're not
going to fit that on 12 tapes.  You need 15 tapes.

Furthermore, it looks like you don't have enough holding-disk space:
 > FAILED [no more holding disk space]
which is causing your dumps to go straight to tape, which isn't very efficient.

Furthermore, your tape only wrote a bit over 1G:
>   DailySet-05       2:11  1140224K   28.8     1     0
which is 28% of the length you specified in your tapetype definition.
Is there a problem with the tape?  Or is the tapetype definition
incorrect?

Dustin

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