Running out of tape when half full???

2006-09-22 Thread Matthew Claridge
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

Re: Running out of tape when half full???

2006-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
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

Re: Running out of tape when half full???

2006-09-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 at 9:03am, Matthew Claridge wrote 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

Re: Running out of tape when half full???

2006-09-22 Thread Matthew Claridge
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 at 9:03am, Matthew Claridge wrote 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

Re: Running out of tape when half full???

2006-09-22 Thread Matthew Claridge
on 22/09/2006 12:00 Gene Heskett said the following: 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

Re: Running out of tape when half full???

2006-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 22 September 2006 08:42, Matthew Claridge wrote: on 22/09/2006 12:00 Gene Heskett said the following: 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

Running out of tape ...

2005-05-17 Thread Vlad Popa
Hi Folks ! After spending some thrilling days with amanda I got her running somehow.. Nice Lady, but see .. I am using the vtape filedriver and my backupdisks are on a mounted ftp server using lufs. the shares of this server are mounted and owned by amanda. I have labeled 8 vtapes of 10Gb, my

Re: Running out of tape ...

2005-05-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:17:08PM +0200, Vlad Popa wrote: Hi Folks ! After spending some thrilling days with amanda I got her running somehow.. Nice Lady, but see .. I am using the vtape filedriver and my backupdisks are on a mounted ftp server using lufs. the shares of this server are

Re: Running out of tape ...

2005-05-17 Thread Vlad Popa
Hi Jon ! On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:17:08PM +0200, Vlad Popa wrote: Hi Folks ! After spending some thrilling days with amanda I got her running somehow.. Nice Lady, but see .. I am using the vtape filedriver and my backupdisks are on a mounted ftp server using lufs. the shares of this server

Re: Running out of tape due to full dumps

2002-05-30 Thread Bradley Marshall
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:29:40AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2002-05-29T00:27:52Z, Bradley Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Its a DDS3 tape, and runs out when it tries to flush about 16G (30G uncompressed). No offense, but how much data did you /want/ to fit on a 12G tape? 12G.

Running out of tape due to full dumps

2002-05-28 Thread Bradley Marshall
Hi all, I've got amanda running successfully here for some time, but periodically I have a problem where the tape runs out of space. This generally happens when 2 of the larger partitions I have have a full dump run on them at the same time. Is there any way to tell Amanda to try not to do a

Re: Running out of tape due to full dumps

2002-05-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 28 May 2002 at 4:29pm, Bradley Marshall wrote I've got amanda running successfully here for some time, but periodically I have a problem where the tape runs out of space. This generally happens when 2 of the larger partitions I have have a full dump run on them at the same time. Is

Re: Running out of tape due to full dumps

2002-05-28 Thread Bradley Marshall
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 08:11:27AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Why not define a slightly smaller tapelength? That way amanda won't try to put too much on the tape. Are you using hardware compression? You may be assuming too much compression. I'm actually using software

Re: Running out of tape due to full dumps

2002-05-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 29 May 2002 at 9:02am, Bradley Marshall wrote On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 08:11:27AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Why not define a slightly smaller tapelength? That way amanda won't try to put too much on the tape. Are you using hardware compression? You may be assuming too

Running out of tape

2001-05-15 Thread Grabham, Keith
Can anyone advise mewhy Amanda is failing after running out of tape? The config file tells it that it should use 4 tapes, so it should calculate how much data should back up to fit on those 4 tapes but yet it uses all 4 tapes then looks for a 5th one! *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH

Re: Running out of tape

2001-05-15 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, sorry, i have no time to describe the complete procedure now, but this topic comes up every few weeks at this list, so please have a look at the archiv of the mailinglist. you can find it at www.amanda.org. there you will find even more ifo's about configuring and running amanda. You'll have