On Friday 22 September 2006 04:03, Matthew Claridge wrote: >Hi, > >Hope someone can shed some light on this. Suddenly my backups have >started failing due to the tape running out of space: > >*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]]. >FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > server1.rwa /var lev 0 STRANGE > server1.rwa /usr/local lev 0 FAILED [out of tape] > server1.rwa /usr/local lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Connection reset by > peer"] server1.rwa /usr/local lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] > >NOTES: > taper: tape DailySet202 kb 34175264 fm 16 writing file: No space left > on device > > >However, I'm using an 80GB (uncompressed) VXA tape: > >tapetype VXA2-V23 # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below) > >define tapetype VXA2-V23 { > comment "Exabyte VXA2 tape drive and V23 tapes" > length 76209 mbytes > filemark 3908 kbytes > speed 3956 kps >} > >Anyone have any ideas as to what's going on? > >Thanks in advance, >Matt
Are you using an adequately sized holding disk? Without that, the data rate to the tape might be slow enough that the drive is doing a lot of shoe-shining, which wastes space. How big is it, and whats the setting for 'reserved' in your amanda.conf? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.