[EMAIL PROTECTED] daily]# du -sh * 11G 20040823 117M 20040910 31G 20041012 25G 20041014
Our drive is using LTO ultrium 100/200 GB cartridge + tape
Frederic Medery System Administrator
LexUM, University of Montreal
Gene Heskett wrote:
I see that you are using a 1GB chunk size setting, and just a rather cursory mental addup of one of them indicates it would take about a 21 to 22GB tape to actually hold just the dump of
pisa.lan.lexum.pri._home_projets
Are your tapes that big? We apparently neglected to specifically ask that.
Since amanda cannot span an individual dump (all those chunks added together again) over more than one tape, it probably totals things up and throws up its hands in defeat since the backup is bigger than the tape.
The design of amanda tends to want its disklist to be rather lengthy, and broken up such that no one backup image is more than say 10% of a tape, and with a few that may be only a few megabytes, which can then allow amanda to juggle its scheduleing to facilitate a consistent amount of data (on the tape, after any gzip compression if used) each night. I have had it fill the tapes to 97+% many nights in a row without ever hitting the dreaded EOT here.
Unless the budget has the sheckles for a bigger drive, I think I'd be rather inclined to rm -fR all of this, and breakup the disklist entries into smaller sized pieces and more of them. Start with the biggest one tonight, making 4 or 5 pieces (disklist entries) out of it, do the next biggest one tomorrow night, etc till you have it carved down into gigabyte or smaller hunks per entry. Or get a larger drive, much larger. See sheckles above...
