On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 01:35:33 PM you wrote: > Quite often backup fails with the errors: > > > > FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: > > backup-server /backup lev 0 FAILED [data write: Broken pipe] > > backup-server /backup lev 0 partial taper: No space left on device, > splitting not enabled > > backup-server /backup lev 0 FAILED [data write: Broken pipe] > > backup-server /backup lev 0 FAILED 1 tapes filled; runtapes=1 does not > allow additional tapes > > > > It looks strange as there should be plenty space left on the tape (LTO6 - > 2.5TB for uncompressed and 6.25 TB for compressed). >
In my experience, if tapes are filling up too early, it's likely a sign that the tape drive has a hardware problem (assuming the tapes are good and you're cleaning the drive regularly). You could experiment with dd'ing large files to it and you'll probably see it give end-of-tape at seemingly random amounts of data. > > > Other issue is that this backup-server:/backup filesystem is the biggest one > and it is backed up directly to the tape without using holding disk. > > The issues here is that despite the settings that I have in amanda.conf: > > dumporder "ssssssssss" > taperalgo first I suspect that not using a holding disk is causing these settings to not work as expected, but hopefully someone who knows for sure will chip in.
