Only writing to 1 tape

I've got amanda configured to dump to 2 tape devices /dev/nst0 and /dev/nst1. See conf below. The problem is that amanda writes to one tape on the first day, and then to the next tape on the second day, repeating. And amanda (2.4.2) complains that: These dumps were to tape DailySet2-11. The

dumps way too big

I got the following message for all of my hosts, except those that it did a level 0 back up of. ns0 / lev 1 FAILED [dumps way too big, must skip incremental dumps] I read the Faq-o-matic on it, which says "...Amanda couldn't back up some disk because it wouldn't fit in the tape(s)..." This do

"STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY"

HI, I got the following, and was wondering what the "Strange" meant, and what I could do about the "File too large" failures : ... FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: pipe10 /dev/hda1 lev 1 STRANGE workshop /dev/hdc lev 0 FAILED ["data write: File too large"] workshop /dev/hda1 lev 0 FAILE

amstatus

Hi, I've looked at the man pages, the Faq-o-matic, etc and find very little describibg the output of amstatus. Could someone give me some insight into the output? ...SUMMARY part real estimated size size partition : 49 estimated : 48

Tape Error

Hi, I got the following email from amanda: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [new tape not found in rack]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: web01 /dev/sda2 lev 0

FreeBSD pkgadd failure

I've done a pkg_add of amanda on a FreeBSD system. All required packages installed, also. I created the user group and home dir for amanda also. Modified the /etc/services /etc/inetd.conf , and HUP'd the inetd. Now, when I run the amcheck from the tape server I get: Amanda Backup Client Hos

config failure with gcc

While installing on a linux system I got the following error: ... checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. The permissions look OK. # which gcc /usr/bin/gcc # ls -l

amdump Failure

When I run amdump from the tape host I get no feedback while it is running. When I check the log file, it appears fine until, near the end of the file I get: localhost /dev/hda1 lv 0 t 21495 s 644898 p 11411 dump of driver schedule after start degraded mode:

changerfile

Hi all, I am setting up the amanda.conf file, and have come to the point where I am setting up the tape device. I am setting the tpchanger to "chg-multi" so I can take advantage of the 2 DLTs I have attached to the host. The DLTs are /dev/(n)st0 and /dev/(n)st1. In reading the TAPE.CHANGERS

changerfile

Hi all, I am setting up the amanda.conf file, and have come to the point where I am setting up the tape device. I am setting the tpchanger to "chg-multi" so I can take advantage of the 2 DLTs I have attached to the host. The DLTs are /dev/(n)st0 and /dev/(n)st1. In reading the TAPE.CHANGERS