If you're using dump rather than tar for backups, on some platforms, it will try to backup the whole drive anyway...
----- Marc Mengel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Heiko Schellhorn wrote: > Hi > > I've installed amanda 2.4.3 on Suse 8.0, controlling an Qualstar TLS 4480 (80 > Slots) AIT-3. I'm testing this configuration first time. > The library and amanda are working fine together. > > I get this message by amanda: > planner: FATAL cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out > > The directory I want to backup has 59GB. The tape has native 100GB and > compressed estimated 200GB capacity. > The backup should fit nearly two times to the tape compressed yet nearly 4 > times. > > Has anyone an suggestion why I get this message and how to solve. > May it be amanda calculates the size of the partition where the directory is > stored ? Because the partition has 800GB and is consequently bigger than tape > capacity. > > Thanks in advance > > Heiko > -- > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dipl. Inf. Heiko Schellhorn > > University of Bremen Room: NWI-W3140 > Inst. of Environmental Physics Phone: +49(0)421 218 4080 > P.O. Box 33 04 40 Fax: +49(0)421 218 4555 > D-28334 Bremen Mail: >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Germany www: >http://www.iup.physik.uni-bremen.de > http://www.sciamachy.de > http://www.geoscia.de > >
