Hi Folks, I have followed these instructions (http://docs.huihoo.com/zmanda/amanda-community-setup-15-minutes-ver13.pdf), interpolating where necessary, and solved all the "computer" problems along the way. I am now into "Amanda" problems, meaning things I don't completely understand. (-:
I have completed "amcheck <config>" successfully, and I have tried to request a backup, "amdump <config>". I was enormously optimistic... The email report arrived quickly and complained of what is probably a configuration problem, but I don't understand what I need to do. I could use some advice. I have included what I think is the relevant config as an attachment. The e-mail reports that the problem is: FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: planner: FATAL cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out mail.tclc.org /var/log lev 0 FAILED [dump estimate ( 10051085 KB ) is larger than available tape space ( 5120000 KB ), but cannot incremental dump new disk] Now, I recognize that the simple answer is I have made my vtapes too small, but there is a larger confusion. Why didn't the backup use as many vtapes as necessary? Somewhere there must be a good discussion of how vtapes work and what Amanda does in response to various situations. Can anybody advise me? Thanks for the help, -- Chris. V:916.974.0424 F:916.974.0428
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