> I don't think Amanda is telling you that the level 0 won't fit on the > holding disk. It is telling you that it won't fit on the tape.
no, in that case it usually gives the 'dumps too big for tape' error message. > If you want to have Amanda backup more than will fit on the tape and leave > the rest for a manual flush, as you describe, you could try a tapetype that > claims the tape is much larger than it actually is. I already turned my supposed tape length up 10GB larger than the actual tape; and some of these partitions that are failing, only have 500MB of data. > The other option is the manual changer configuration. I haven't used this, > but my understanding is that you tell Amanda that you have 2 (or more > tapes), and that manual intervention is required to go to subsequent tapes. > Amanda will fill the first tape for you overnight, and in the morning you > change tapes, tell Amanda, and it will use the second tape. No need for a > manual flush in this scenario. the faq-o-matic seems to indicate that the chg-manual configuration only works when started interactively (so you have a console with which to send a signal to amanda that there's a new tape in the drive). I know there's ways to delay backups (I use them for some machines already), so even if I started backups at 6pm, machines could be delayed until the early morning; but I don't trust myself or the tape monkey to remember (or be available) to start a backup every night. Carl Soderstrom. -- Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com