Tim Bunnell wrote at 17:03 -0500 on Dec 13, 2008: > Folks, > > We're running Amanda (version 2.5.1p1) on a Debian Linux system with an > 8-tape AIT-2 library. We have around 314GB spread over two file systems > that we are attempting to backup in one run across as many tapes as > necessary. We're using gzip compression and expect it will take 5-6 > tapes to complete (there's a fair amount of audio and image data that > doesn't compress too well). > > I think we have the config files set up correctly, but it seems like no > matter what we do, the run stops (after about 16 hours) and reports that > it's out of tape. I don't think it has ever succeeded in spanning more > than 4 tapes before giving us the error. I see nothing in the .debug > output for the changer that looks different for any tapes it changes. > > I'm sort of at a loss for where to start looking for the problem, and > what to look for. Any suggestions from the list?
Do you really know the tape capacity for your tapes? Some AIT-2 flavors are 36 GB, some are 50 GB, it seems. 36*8 < 314 Have you run amtapetype to verify? (see http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions) Do you have hardware compression off?