>... the backup of my file server parition
>is failing with a rather uninformative error message:
>
>ironwood /mnt/files lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
There should have been other messages besides this one, perhaps at the
top of the report or in the NOTES section.
>... I exclude a number of directories because
>they are backed up with my Macintosh backup program and sendsize
>calculates a size of 15Gb to be backed up. The file server partition also
>holds the amanda holding disk directory. ...
If you're trying to back up the file system that has the holding disk
area, you should use "holdingdisk no" in the dumptype to force it to go
direct to tape.
You can either create a new dumptype with this option but inheriting
everything else from the "normal" one, or you can add it to the disklist
directly (see the "DISKLIST FILE" section of the amanda.conf man page
for the details).
>At one point, there seemed to be an option to have a negative chunksize,
>whereby amanda would write directly to tape if a chunk was larger than
>that chunksize. ...
Yeah, I miss that, too. Not sure why someone removed it.
>Kevin
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
