[amanda 2.4.2p2 on solaris 2.6]
Howdy - I've been handed a bunch (11) of < 35G file systems that I need to start backing up. I have two 15xDLT changers with two drives in each at my disposal. The file systems contain a lot of comressed data so I'm not using compression - just ufsdump. [chg-scsi, chagerdev is /dev/rsst6, (tape)dev is /dev/rmt/8n] And I'm trying to get an initial set of fulls on tape before I start a regular cycle - using: define dumptype library-dump { nocomp-root comment "for the library - full only - just for now" strategy noinc record no } Problem: the two largest dump images are never making it onto tape though they are smaller than the media. There's plenty of tape available. I'm using 14 runtapes, 7 days, one run per cycle. The estimates are: 32247843K 32023555K 30507206K 28295773K 27471564K 25219602K 13415685K 13033377K 11460787K 10568289K 10084276K 8498213K As far as I can tell, amanda is trying to fit as many images onto each tape as possible, but in the process it's hitting a limmit and leaving images on disk despite four available tapes waiting for data in the configuration. Is it possible for me to assure amanda that it should just keep trying and that there's plenty of tape available for what it's trying to do? Perhaps milk and cookies? -fil -- fil krohnengold systems administrator - IT american museum of natural history [EMAIL PROTECTED]