Hi, On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 09:05 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-10-04 00:34, Alan Pearson wrote: > > When I do this, amcheck warns that I _must_ use a changer... > > > > So how to do this without a changer ? > > You run amanda, and want one run to not exceed 1 DVD? > Then just set runtapes 1, and tapesize to the size of > your DVD. I doubt that is what you want, because 4.7 Gbyte > backups are not happening in real life (at least once in > a while you need a full backup). > > Note that there exist "changers" that work on virtual > tapes on disk: chg-disk and chg-multi can both do what > you want (without bying any hardware, if that is what > you believe is blocking here). > > See: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/File_driver > Yes, i would like to split up my backups on multipe DVD-RAMs since a backup can be up to 12GB big.
I have decided to go the " Virtual tapes with chg-disk" way. Here is my config: http://pastebin.ca/190833 And here the Error: ---------------------- These dumps were to tape daily-03. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: daily-01. The next new tape already labelled is: daily-2. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: server md1 lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than available tape space, 61240550 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk] server md3 lev 1 STRANGE STATISTICS: Total Full Incr. -------- -------- -------- Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:02 Run Time (hrs:min) 0:03 Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:01 0:00 0:01 Output Size (meg) 368.5 0.0 368.5 Original Size (meg) 367.3 0.0 367.3 Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- -- (level:#disks ...) Filesystems Dumped 1 0 1 (1:1) Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 5938.1 -- 5938.1 Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:01 0:00 0:01 Tape Size (meg) 368.5 0.0 368.5 Tape Used (%) 13.2 0.0 13.2 (level:#disks ...) Filesystems Taped 1 0 1 (1:1) (level:#chunks ...) Chunks Taped 37 0 37 (1:37) Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 5933.1 -- 5933.1 USAGE BY TAPE: Label Time Size % Nb Nc daily-03 0:01 367M 13.2 1 37 FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- server md3 lev 1 STRANGE sendbackup: start [server:md3 level 1] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/tar -f - ... sendbackup: info end ? gtar: ./CSS-213.133.108.154-27015.log: file changed as we read it ? gtar: ./CSS-213.133.108.154-27025.log: file changed as we read it | Total bytes written: 385187840 (368MiB, 5.8MiB/s) sendbackup: size 376160 sendbackup: end \-------- NOTES: planner: tapecycle (5) <= runspercycle (20) planner: Adding new disk server:md1. driver: WARNING: /backup/amanda: not 102400 KB free. planner: disk server:md1, full dump (61240550KB) will be larger than available tape space taper: no split_diskbuffer specified: using fallback split size of 10240kb to buffer (null) in-memory taper: tape daily-03 kb 377344 fm 37 [OK] DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-MB OUT-MB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -------------------------- ------------------------------------- ------------- server md1 0 FAILED -------------------------------------------- server md3 1 367 368 -- 1:04 5919.5 1:04 5933.1 (brought to you by Amanda version 2.5.1p1) How do i set up amanda so that it keep doing the dump parts until a "tape" is full? My disklist: server md3 user-tar-span server md1 user-tar-span Thanks, Mario
