Re: large dumps - 2.4.2

2007-03-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:29:40AM +0100, Jurgen Pletinckx wrote: Jon LaBadie | Guessing here. You are using DLT tape with a 35GB native capacity | and believe the marketing hype that they are 70GB tapes. | | Further guessing. The previous amanda admin is using | software compression

Re: large dumps - 2.4.2

2007-03-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jurgen Pletinckx schrieb: I'm trying to revive an installation of amanda 2.4.2 which has been left unattended for quite a while. I've flushed whatever was in the holding disks to tape, cleaned up the remaining cruft, and, very tentatively, started amdump. Rather to my surprise, that seems

Re: large dumps - 2.4.2

2007-03-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:27:56PM +0100, Jurgen Pletinckx wrote: Except for the following types of failures, that is: deepskyblue:/dev/xlv/xlv10 [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump skip-incr disk] deepskyblue:/dev/xlv/xlv20 [dump larger than tape,

Re: large dumps - 2.4.2

2007-03-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 March 2007, Jurgen Pletinckx wrote: I'm trying to revive an installation of amanda 2.4.2 which has been left unattended for quite a while. I've flushed whatever was in the holding disks to tape, cleaned up the remaining cruft, and, very tentatively, started amdump. Rather to my