Re: run out of space
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:58:04AM +0100, Monserrat Seisdedos Nu?ez wrote: Hello: i know amanda does a check before dump data, but does it include a space tape check?? i wonder what happen if the fs are grater than the tape capacity, is the entire backup thrown away or it back up only the fs that fit the tape? Thanks It estimates based on its guess of compression and the information you put in tapetype. If a dump of a single fs is greater than the tape capacity, it produces an error message. The common solution is to use gnu tar and back up subdirectories of the file system. -- - Dan Wilder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Manager Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 98155-0549URL http://embedded.linuxjournal.com/ -
RE: run out of space
The amcheck does not check tape space, only that there is a labelled tape. It should know the amount of tape space available based on the tapetype configured. When the dump actually happens, amanda will first reduce full backups to incremental backups if there is too much data for the tape size, and then exclude file systems that are too big to fit on the tape if it can't do incrementals (such as if you have full-only file systems marked). It will back up as much as it can, basically. -Original Message- From: Monserrat Seisdedos Nuñez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 February, 2002 00:58 To: Amanda-Users (E-mail) Subject: run out of space Hello: i know amanda does a check before dump data, but does it include a space tape check?? i wonder what happen if the fs are grater than the tape capacity, is the entire backup thrown away or it back up only the fs that fit the tape? Thanks
