Hi all,

I'm having trouble getting one of my clients backed up.  There are 13
file systems on the client which need to be dumped, totalling about 
12GB of data. 

I'm getting error messages like the following for several of the file 
systems:

        hacluster1 /dev/sda12 lev 0 FAILED [dumps too big, but cannot\
        incremental dump skip-incr disk]

I know that amanda seems to think that the dumps are too big, and 
failing these file systems because I've dis-allowed incremental 
backups.  However, I've also specified the use of 2 tapes for the 
backups, and amanda doesn't seem to be filling both:

        Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:10
        Run Time (hrs:min)         9:26
        Dump Time (hrs:min)        7:51       7:49       0:02
        Output Size (meg)       54711.4    54709.1        2.2
        Original Size (meg)     89777.2    89755.3       22.0
        Avg Compressed Size (%)    60.9       61.0       10.2   (level:#disks ...)
        Filesystems Dumped           33         28          5   (1:5)
        Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      1981.3     1991.6       15.7
        Tape Time (hrs:min)        6:50       6:50       0:00
        Tape Size (meg)         54712.4    54710.0        2.4
        Tape Used (%)             156.3      156.3        0.0   (level:#disks ...)
        Filesystems Taped            33         28          5   (1:5)

>From the 'Tape Used' it appears that amanda is only filling 50% of 
the second tape.  The 'Tape Size' seems to indicate I'm only filling 
about 55GB worth of tape.  I'm using a DLT7000 drive with DLT4 tapes.
I should be able to get 70GBs worth of data across 2 tapes, no? So, I 
should be able to get another 15GBs onto the second tape, by my 
calculations, which is fine, since there's less than 12GB currently 
failing.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
-- 

Seeya,
Paul
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