Brandon, Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but here's what I see:
Your tapes hold 35GB native. You are backing up: 76399.8 MB (76GB) Compressed, that is: 46003.2 MB (46GB) Because you use software compression, you have to go by the native capacity of your tapes. So even compressed, you data won't fit on one tape. The only options that I can see are to try to get better compression by using 'gzip --best' (if Amanda can support adding switches to gzip) or getting larger tapes. Setting the length option in the tapetype clause to more than your tape can hold probably won't help you any. Sorry. Anthony Valentine -----Original Message----- From: Brandon D. Valentine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tapetype recommendations Well, today for the first time I hit EOT. I'm using a Sony SDX-300C AIT-1 drive. Here's the tapetype I've been using and the error messages as produced by amreport: define tapetype AIT1-35 { comment "AIT-1 with 230m tapes (35/70 GB)" length 33000 mbytes filemark 500 kbytes speed 3000 mbytes } --- amreport email --- These dumps were to tape Daily06. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Daily07. <snip> STATISTICS: Total Full Daily -------- -------- -------- Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:03 Run Time (hrs:min) 4:16 Dump Time (hrs:min) 7:05 5:13 1:52 Output Size (meg) 46003.2 34804.9 11198.2 Original Size (meg) 76399.8 59044.7 17355.1 Avg Compressed Size (%) 60.2 58.9 64.5 (level:#disks ...) Filesystems Dumped 44 15 29 (1:28 4:1) Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 1846.3 1896.9 1705.0 Tape Time (hrs:min) 3:00 2:55 0:05 Tape Size (meg) 28873.0 28244.6 628.5 Tape Used (%) 87.6 85.6 1.9 (level:#disks ...) Filesystems Taped 41 14 27 (1:27) Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 2739.3 2751.7 2278.3 <snip> taper: tape Daily06 kb 34136032 fm 42 writing file: No space left on device driver: going into degraded mode because of tape error. --- end amreport email --- Any recommendations on how to change my tapetype definition to avoid this problem? And yes, I've got hardware compression disabled. Brandon D. Valentine -- "Iam mens praetrepidans avet vagari." - G. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, XLVI
