--On Thursday, September 12, 2002 11:03:48 +0800 Alvin Ko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: > ... > 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 Amanda can not backup any filesystem that is bigger than a single tape. Evidently your tapetype has a size listed greater than the actual capacity of your tape or Amanda wouldn't even have tried. You mentioned DDS3 which has a 12GB raw capacity, and that is about how much taper says it wrote before getting the 'no space' error. If your data is highly compressible, you might be able to get it to fit using compression, otherwise you will have to split your disklist entry for /export/home into a few (or several) subdirectories that will each fit on a tape and use tar to do the backups (dump usually either won't back up subdirectories or will be unable to keep track of the dumpdates for them). Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
