On Wednesday November 05 2003 07:42 am, you wrote: > Stephen Carville wrote: > > chena:/db/nt-backups/bering 1 [dumps way too big, must skip > > incremental dumps] > > > > Now, if I am requesting always full, I should never see an incremental. > > Right? > > The message actually means something like: "even an incremental one is > too large". > > > Secondly what does the message mean? The file sizes are no larger than > > usual. The particuar one above is only about 5.3G. Also, the amuont of > > data written to tape is consistent with the backup being done > > sucessfully. > > What is your tapesize set to? The size of that particular DLE is maybe > not enough, but the total sum of data is. In the amdump file you > can follow what planner thinks about the estimated sizes. > > From the name of the DLE, I guess it is a backup of some NT already, so > probably the contents do change almost completely. Therefore an > incremental or full would be about the same size.
Yeah. They're files from Backup Exec. Turns out what happened was I recently switched from using AIT1 tapes for the NT backups to AIT2 tapes. However, I left the tapetype set at AIT1. Once the backups got loo large for 2 AIT1 tapes (runtapes = 2) amandam truied to get clever. :-) I've changed the tapetype to AIT2 so everything should be OK from now on. Thanks to everyone who answered. Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------ Right wing socialists hate privacy as much as left wing socialists hate guns.