I added tapebufs 50 to amanda.conf after the labelstr line, and this is the output I'm getting now:
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: taper: FATAL shmget: (1638600 tapebufs) No space left on device amflush: ERROR Cannot flush without tape. Try again. Shang-Lin On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 17:02 -0400, Scott R. Burns wrote: > Try > > tapebufs 50 > > In your amanda.conf file > > Scott... > > Scott R. Burns > NETCON Technologies Incorporated > Suite 135 - 4474 Blakie Road > London, Ontario, Canada > N6L 1G7 > Voice: +1.519.652.0401 > Fax: +1.519.652.9275 > Web: www.netcontech.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shang-Lin Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 4:21 PM > To: Paul Bijnens > Subject: Re: no space left on device during amflush > > > > Shang-Lin Chen wrote: > > > taper: FATAL shmget: (655440 tapebufs) No space left on device > > > > The default value for tapebufs is 20 (buffers of 32K bytes each). > > You probably got some weird value in amanda.conf for that parameter. > > > > The above value results if over 20 GByte of RAM. > > > My amanda.conf file doesn't set anything for tapebufs, and I've never > had this problem before. How do I change the tapebufs setting? > > Thanks, > Shang-Lin > > >