>... now amanda permanently refuses to backup volume sdb1 on host
>sheena:
>
>sheena sdb1 lev 0 FAILED [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump
>new disk]
>
>I submitted a "amadmin config force sheena sdb1" some days ago, but of no
>use. meanwhile, the last full backup of this volume has been overwritten
>in the tape rotation.
I'm confused. Note that Amanda says this is a new disk. So how can
the last full backup have been overwritten? And "force" would have no
effect since Amanda is determined to do a full dump on it anyway.
>sure this volume is quite close to 4 gigs, but compressed with gzip it has
>something about 2 gigs which should fit on a tape easily.
I'm not sure what Amanda does with software compression and new disks.
I **thought** it took comprate for the dumptype, which defaults to 50%.
You didn't change that, did you?
Also note that that 2 GBytes has to fit with all the other dumps Amanda
needs to do in the run. If they need 2+ GBytes as well, that's not
going to fit on a 4 GByte tape.
>is there any chance to get amanda to make a level 0 backup of this volume
>until our new 12 gig streamer gets delivered and installed ? ...
Comment everything else out of the disklist and make a special run just
for it, then put everything back.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
