Hummm, DLT tape set to 30000mb ( 20000 + .5 compression ) partition on /mnt/hde4 is 69578056k ( via df ) /mnt/hde4 'sendsizes' to 70727004160 ( 66GB, 4.6MB/s )
at 5am it tried to fit the (/mnt/hde4) partition onto the tail end of the tape & EOT'd. At 8:30 it tried again onto the next tape. At 9am i stopped it and posed this inquiry. "John R. Jackson" wrote: > > >will amanda tape out the data that cant fit onto that 40gig tape and > >then onto the next tape OR will it start over again from the beginning ( > >as the docs currently say ) ... > > If Amanda hits any tape error (including EOT) it will start the current > image over, from the beginning, on the next tape. If it hits EOT, then didnt sendsize & friends miscalculat? > > >... If docs are correct, why does amanda bother bother > >attempting to write any partition that has more data than the tape than > >the tape can hold? > > It doesn't. > > >should'nt there be a "sorry can't do that" error? > > There is. If the estimate is larger than the tapetype length field > you'll get one of these messages (depending on other settings): > > dump larger than tape, but cannot incremental dump skip-incr disk > dump larger than tape, but cannot incremental dump new disk > Dump larger than tape: full dump of XXX delayed. > dump larger than tape, skipping incremental i guess i should ask why I didnt get any of these errors? And is there any consideration on fitting a large partition onto one or more tapes?
