Lots to comment on.
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:15:25PM -0400, Dustin Schuemann wrote: > Im trying to backup to some virtual tapes. > > My hard drive is 1.2 tb. I presume you mean this is the size of the virtual tape (vtape) drive (total size). > > The /home directory on the remote host is 4 gigs. > And that is a single DLE (DiskList Entry)? > I want to run the backup every night and do a full backup on the first > night. I want to have a 7 day rotation. > > When I run the backup I get this error. > > 65.0.0.0 /home lev 0 FAILED "[dump larger than available tape space, > 2088825 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk]" > > > This is what I have. > > dumpcycle 7 days > runspercycle 7 > > tapecycle 7 tapes > But what is the size of your vtapes defined to be? How many have you created and labeled? A single cycle of tapes is barely allowed by amanda. You will get repeated messages like "only full backup of /home about to be overwritten". And when that happens your older incrementals are of reduced value. Should the taping fail, you would not have a full dump either. A better value would be something like tapecycle 15. Or if you want to keep a months worth, over 28. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)