> >Every day now (for the past 3 days) I have been getting the same errors: > > > > "Bad file descriptor" > > Sigh. Amanda is not telling you the whole story there (can't remember > if this is fixed in the current source or not). Here is the real culprit > from the NOTES section: > > > taper: tape Daily3 kb 96890112 fm 22 writing file: No space left on device > > That "no space left on device" usually translates to "you just hit end > of tape". Note that you wrote just under 100 GBytes. Does that roughly > match the tape size you expect?
Yes (assuming you mean uncompressed). I have the VXA-1 V17 tapetype set at 40G. It is rated at 66G. It uses hardware compression. I am actually surprised it hits end-of-tape with my 40G estimate. I have lowered the tapetype length from 50G to 40G and I still hit EOT. Please clarify for me: . Does amanda try to limit what it puts on a tape to what it thinks will fit? In my case to 40G? ...based on the estimates phase? What should I do to avoid hitting EOT? I don't like to have to manually flush files. Thanks, Dick
