On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Johan Booysen <johan AT matrix-data.co DOT uk> 
wrote:
> taper: Will request retry of failed split part

This means that one of the "parts" that Amanda tried to write to tape
failed.  Amanda generally assumes that any tape error means it's out
of tape, since many UNIX tape drivers do not provide any additional
information.  When that is the case, it re-tries that part on the next
tape.

> driver: Out of tapes; going into degraded mode

Unfortunately, your runtapes prevented Amanda from using an additional tape.

Overall, I think what's happened is that your backups have grown
larger than your tapes.

Dustin

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