Le dimanche 25 mars 2007 à 14:12 -0400, Gene Heskett a écrit : > On Sunday 25 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Le vendredi 23 mars 2007 à 19:26 -0500, Frank Smith a écrit : > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > Le jeudi 22 mars 2007 à 20:13 -0400, Gene Heskett a écrit : > >> >> On Thursday 22 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >>> Hello, > >> >>> > >> >>> One backup partly failed with : > >> >>> > >> >>> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > >> >>> k400 /mnt/d_mails lev 1 FAILED [dumps way too big, 1025270 KB, > >> >>> must skip incremental dumps] > >> >>> k400 /home/jpp lev 1 FAILED [dumps way too big, 1116100 KB, > >> >>> must skip incremental dumps] > >> >>> k400 /etc lev 0 STRANGE > >> >>> > >> >>> for some other directories and machines the backup is OK. > >> >>> What is the problem ? > >> >>> > >> >>> Regards > >> >>> > >> >>> Storm66 > >> >> > >> >> Your kernel version please? > >> > > >> > Kernel 2.6.16 on the "master" machine, 2.6.18 and 2.6.20 on other > >> > machines. > >> > > >> > Frank Smith asks for the size of tape I am using : it is a virtual > >> > tape on a separate disk whth more than 100G avalaible. > >> > >> The physical disk it's on may be big enough , but is the length of > >> your vtapes in your tapetype set to something larger than 1 GB? > > > >Hello, > > > >I didn't use any tapetype parameter ... I will set one bigger enough and > >have a try. > > That's an obvious miss-configuration then. Here is the stanza I use: > ---- > runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump > tpchanger "chg-disk" > tapedev "file:/amandatapes/Dailys/" > changerdev "/dev/null" > changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/chg-disk" > > tapetype HARD-DISK > ---- > This is defined fairly high up in the amanda.conf, then farther down, in > the section that starts with: > # tapetypes > ---- > define tapetype HARD-DISK { > comment "WD 200GB drive" > lbl-templ "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/3hole.ps" > length 9000 mbytes > } > ---- > The lbl-templ can be left out, I get a summary sheet on the printer for > every run that I file and that's the form that amanda fills out and > prints. > > "/amandarapes/Dailys/" is /dev/hdd2, a 180GB partition mounted to > mountpoint /amandatapes. > > >Regards > > > >Storm66 > > I hope this is helpfull.
Hello, The try was OK, virtual tapes must have a defines size as there is (I think there is) a default size when no tapetype is specified. Thanks Storm66