Hi,
now let's get some information to sort out varios things:
1.) what length are the tapes you use: 120 meter or 125 meter?
2.) how often do you want amanda to take level0 dumps of your data?
once a week?
3.) how many data do you need to backup?
4.) is hardwarecompression active in your tapedrive?
Christoph[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
From: Christoph Scheeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, first : simple answer, simple question, and amanda is telling it to you: amanda thinks the level 0 dump of this filesystem will not fit on a single tape.
That's understood.
Amanda can not span a single disk-list entry over multiple tapes. you'll have to split it up using excludelists and tar.
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NOTES: planner: pbrazor1.tszrh.csfb.com /ora 20030226 0 [dump larger than tape, full dump delayed]
[...] second: these values will give you problems.
There are 6 Tapes in the changer; dumpcycle 1 weeks runspercycle 5 tapecycle 6 tapes runtapes 3
you want 5 runs per week, each using up to 3 tapes. This tells amanda: do a level 0 for each filesystem at least every 15 tapes. but a little later you tell her she only has 6 tapes in rotation. this is a NoNo with amanda. either lower your dump-cycle or get more tapes. runtapes should be at least one tape bigger then runspercycle x runtapes, or amanda will get confused about when to do a level 0 of your disks.
OK, I see the problem, but not the solution yet ;-) There are 6 Tapes in the changer and I dont want to swap these. It is supposed to be sort of "unmaintained forever". - If I put runtapes 1: will it still use more than one tape if needed? - If I put runspercycle 3 and runtapes 2 then I still would need 7 Tapes... - If I put runspercycle 2 and still call it 5 times: will it confuse amanda?
I know I could find out trying but it would take ages.
if you want only level 0 backups, you should set dumpcycle to 0. Christoph
