On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 at 9:24am, Vicki Stanfield wrote > I am having a problem with amanda leaving very large dumps in the > holding area and not writing them to tape. The tapes are 20/40GB tapes, > but a 23GB dump doesn't get written even though there is a blank tape > available. Even if I try to flush this dump, it runs for a long time and > then errors again with "No space left on device."
Are you using software or hardware compression? What does your tapetype look like? > The dumps were flushed to tapes Progeny01-0043, Progeny01-0044. > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]]. > Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. > Run amflush again to flush them to tape. > The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to used are: Progeny01-0020, Progeny01-0021. *snip* You clipped the *really* interesting part -- the line in the NOTES section from taper. What's that line look like? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
