I used amanda 2.4.2p2 with a DDS-3 tape drive to do a full backup of my Linux last night. In the amanda.conf file, I used chg-manual as the changer with 3 tapes. My /export/home folder has 23GB data. I had labeled three tapes (Tape-01, Tape-02, Tape-03) and then start the backup. 3 hours later, she asked me to insert backup tape into slot 1. When amdump completed, I got the following report. --- These dumps were to tapes Tape-01, Tape-02, Tape-03. The next 3 tapes Amanda expects to used are: a new tape, a new tape, a new tape.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: localhost /export/home lev 0 FAILED [too many taper retries] ... NOTES: planner: Adding new disk localhost:/boot. planner: Adding new disk localhost:/usr. planner: Adding new disk localhost:/. planner: Adding new disk localhost:/export/home. planner: Adding new disk localhost:/home. planner: Adding new disk localhost:/var. planner: Adding new disk localhost:/opt. taper: tape Tape-01 kb 12013824 fm 7 writing file: No space left on device taper: retrying localhost:/export/home.0 on new tape: [writing file: No space left on device] taper: tape Tape-02 kb 12004832 fm 1 writing file: No space left on device taper: retrying localhost:/export/home.0 on new tape: [writing file: No space left on device] taper: tape Tape-03 kb 0 fm 0 [OK] driver: Could not rmdir /mnt/hdc1/20020911: Directory not empty --- She could not backup my /export/home folder into multiple tapes. Anybody knows why? Best Regards, Alvin K. T. Ko
