just a thought, that may not be the answer...
try setting your chunksize to something like 1Gb (or 200M, if that works for
you). This means that if it's backing up 2.5G, no individual file in the
holding disk area will be bigger than that chunksize. We needed it because
our backup was trying to write chunks 3 or 4G big, and failing. e2fs can't
currently hold bigger than a 2G file, can't provide any advice on other
filesystems, however.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robinson David F Dr
DLVA
Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2001 08:07
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: driver: dumper0 died while dumping
This problem goes away if I specify a much lower value for
the 'use' parameter on the holdingdisk. The original
value specified was 30Gb. This would be more than enough
space for the backup (approximately 2.5Gb). If I switch
this value to 200Mb the backup works.
If I use amstatus to watch the dump as it proceeds, it
appears that the entire dump is being written to the
holding disk. The dump is apparently dying when trying
to move the file to the tape.
Any suggestions as to why this behaves this way?
David
