On Wednesday 11 September 2002 23:03, Alvin Ko wrote: >I used amanda 2.4.2p2 with a DDS-3 tape drive to do a full backup > of my Linux last night. In the amanda.conf file, I used > chg-manual as the changer with 3 tapes. My /export/home folder > has 23GB data. I had labeled three tapes (Tape-01, Tape-02, > Tape-03) and then start the backup. 3 hours later, she asked me > to insert backup tape into slot 1. When amdump completed, I got > the following report. >--- >These dumps were to tapes Tape-01, Tape-02, Tape-03. >The next 3 tapes Amanda expects to used are: a new tape, a new > tape, a new tape. > >FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > localhost /export/home lev 0 FAILED [too many taper retries] >... >NOTES: > planner: Adding new disk localhost:/boot. > planner: Adding new disk localhost:/usr. > planner: Adding new disk localhost:/. > planner: Adding new disk localhost:/export/home. > planner: Adding new disk localhost:/home. > planner: Adding new disk localhost:/var. > planner: Adding new disk localhost:/opt. > taper: tape Tape-01 kb 12013824 fm 7 writing file: No space left > on device taper: retrying localhost:/export/home.0 on new tape: > [writing file: No space left on device] > taper: tape Tape-02 kb 12004832 fm 1 writing file: No space left > on device taper: retrying localhost:/export/home.0 on new tape: > [writing file: No space left on device] > taper: tape Tape-03 kb 0 fm 0 [OK] > driver: Could not rmdir /mnt/hdc1/20020911: Directory not empty >--- >She could not backup my /export/home folder into multiple tapes. > Anybody knows why? > >Best Regards, > >Alvin K. T. Ko
How big is /export/home? If its bigger than your DDS3 tape, you will have to break that entry up into even smaller pieces. Basicly, amanda cannot span more than one tape with a single filesystem, and probably never will. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.15% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
