"Wood, Sid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have been using Amanda (version 2.4.1p1) for about three years as the tool
> with which I backup my servers. Currently I backup an NCR 4400 server
> (MP-RAS 3.02) to an internal DLT-7000. In the past I had experienced
> infrequent errors (vxdump returned 3), but recently a puzzling anomaly has
> surfaced.
[...]
> The only common factor I have been able to identify is that the error always
> occurs when trying to write a file to the tape which would cross the 2GB
> boundary. (My holding disk is 5GB and I'm using DLTIV tapes in a DLT7000
> drive. A full backup takes about 18GB of tape space.) It appears as though
> Amanda thinks the 35GB tape will hold only 2GB.
>
> The manner in which Amanda sequences filesystems for backup means that it
> frequently takes a different number of filesystems (disks ala. amanda) to
> reach the 2GB boundary, and they are not always the same filesystems. But
> the error, if it happens, always occurs if the next file would cross the
> 2GB boundary.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this 2GB hiccup?
> If so, what is the cause, and how was it resolved?
Sid,
What's the maximum file size limit of your OS? In most cases it boils
down to set chunksize = 1.9 GB for the temporary files in the holding
disk.
Johannes Niess
