I have just setup amanda on a test installation for a sparc 5.

It has mounted partitions as follows:
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t3d0s0    1778230  694298 1030586    41%    /
/dev/dsk/c1t5d0s0    2007070  265390 1681468    14%    /home
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0    2007070  119950 1826908     7%    /opt
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0    2007070 1230887  715971    64%    /opt/local

All of which adds up to around 2.2 Gb. I have specified the tape compression
device, but to use software compression for c1t1d0s0 otherwise amanda won't
touch it.
 
My test level 0 dump produced this, which is baffling:

These dumps were to tapes godzilla1, godzilla2.
The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to used are: a new tape, a new tape.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
godzilla   c1t1d0s0 lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Broken pipe"]
godzilla   c1t1d0s0 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

[lots of ufsdump output deleted]

and then this:

DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS 
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
godzilla     c1t1d0s0    0 1242399 704928  56.7 185:46  63.2 185:47  63.2
godzilla     c1t2d0s0    0  121088 121088   --    4:29 450.2   4:30 448.6
godzilla     c1t3d0s0    0  720032 720032   --   23:19 514.8  23:20 514.5
godzilla     c1t5d0s0    0  267392 267392   --   10:15 434.5  10:17 433.8

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2)

So it looks like it succeeded, but amanda wasted a couple of hours getting
halfway through a ufsdump which was always going to fail, then getting it
right with the second tape.

Is there a way to force the first three partitions onto one tape, and the 
fourth onto the second? 

Here is the relevant disklist:

godzilla c1t3d0s0 always-full -1 local
godzilla c1t5d0s0 always-full -1 local
godzilla c1t2d0s0 always-full -1 local
godzilla c1t1d0s0 comp-full -1 local

comp-full, as you might guess, is a compressed level 0.

Chuck

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