On Wednesday 29 January 2003 17:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I got the error when ran amdump: > >FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > hostcat /dev/ida/c0d0p2 lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than > tape, but cannot incremental dump new disk] > planner: FATAL cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out >STATISTICS: ... > >Any suggestion?
It sounds like you are useing 'dump' not tar. In event the filesystem named is in fact bigger than a tape, then you must switch to tar, and describe that particular filesystem as a set of one more level deeper subdirs in you disklist file, in the form of FQDNs prefereably. Amanda cannot span a single dumpfile (or tarfile for that matter) across multiple tapes, so you will need to make them tarfiles instead, which can be made smaller than a tape by the above subdir nameing convention. Here is a snippet of my disklist to show what I mean: coyote /usr/bin root-tar 2 coyote /usr/dlds root-tar 2 coyote /usr/games root-tar 2 coyote /usr/gene comp-root-tar 2 coyote /usr/i386-glibc21-linux root-tar 2 coyote /usr/include comp-root-tar 2 coyote /usr/kerberos root-tar 2 coyote /usr/lib comp-root-tar 2 coyote /usr/libexec comp-root-tar 2 # the "amanda" directories below will be missed due to file locks # so back them up seperately after amdump is finished and # the locks have been removed, I use a seperate script for that coyote /usr/local comp-root-tar 2 coyote /usr/man root-tar 2 coyote /usr/music root-tar 2 coyote /usr/pix root-tar 2 coyote /usr/sbin root-tar 2 coyote /usr/share comp-root-tar 2 coyote /usr/src comp-root-tar 2 coyote /usr/X11R6 comp-root-tar 2 I personally like to see the tarfiles no bigger than 1/4 of a tape because if it has to reach for the next tape, less space is wasted on the first tape, but thats just a personal preference. YMMV of course. I also sort bigger files first for the same reason. The '2' is the spindle number, and helps to keep amanda from thrashing a drive by haveing two proccesses fighting over access to one disk. I have 2 physical drives in this machine, and /usr is on the second drive. You can also see that I control the compression with choice of dumptype, leaving those that won't compress alone. HTH -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
