Jon,
The disks are all raid arrays and are between 75-90% full.
I have the changer configured in the 'amanda.conf' .
The tape changer is working as far as I know ('amlabel [config]
slot [slot num] ' works and amcheck cycles through the different tapes.)
I'm not sure If amanda knows to use more than one tape.
If I increase 'runtapes' in the amanda.conf will it always use
that many even if the dump dosen't require it?
thanks,
chrisj
Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:19:05AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote:
>
>>Hi group,
>> I finally got SCO unix to perform a dump via amanda client. Thank
>>you everyone for your help.
>> Now that the first dump somewhat worked I have more questions.
>> Two of the file systems had errors dumping. I am attempting to
>>backup 2x 45GB and 2x 9 GB file systems. I'm using a DLT tape changer.
>>The errors came backs as:
>>
>>*hostname* /u lev 0 FAILED [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump new
>>disk] *hostname* /u5 lev 0 FAILED [dumps too big, but cannot incremental
>>dump new disk]
>>
>>These are one one of each size file system (/u=9GB, /u5=45GB) so amanda
>>did dump both a 9GB and a 45GB file system to the tape. I was hoping
>>that amanda would load the another tape to finnish the dump but only one
>>tape was used. The report emailed to me said that only 60% of the tape
>>was used. Why didn't the one of the other two tapes get used? If you
>>need my "tape type" configuration or any other info I'll send it.
>>
>
>BTW I'm guessing that your 9 and 45 refer to allocated size, not amount
>of data on the disk. Who cares about how big the disk is, it is the
>amount of data on the disk that matters.
>
>Does amanda know you have a changer?
>
>What changer configuration have you set up.
>
>Is it working with the amtape command to load
>specific slots, next slot, eject, taper, ...
>
>Does amanda know it is allowed to use more than one tape?
>
