[Amanda-users] Amanda backup problem - a tape error occured

2008-12-22 Thread mandaillou
Thanks for your prompt replies. Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:06 AM, mandaillou amanda-forum at backupcentral.com wrote: On the forum, I found people facing the same problem and the error was related to the tapecycle. Mine is 12 and I have 12 reusable tapes.

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda backup problem - a tape error occured

2008-12-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Are you sure of the size of your tape? 4Gb is with compression or not, Do your data are compressible or not, are you using software compression? Jean-Louis mandaillou wrote: Thanks for your prompt replies. Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:06 AM, mandaillou amanda-forum

[Amanda-users] Amanda backup problem - a tape error occured

2008-12-19 Thread mandaillou
Hi everybody :D This is my first post in this forum and maybe not the last. I'm a newbie using Amanda and I'm facing a problem with my backup. I'm working with Amanda 2.5.2p1.1 under RHEL 3. My backup strategy is really simple : - full backup every day on 1 tape - dumpcycle : 2 weeks - tapecycle

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda backup problem - a tape error occured

2008-12-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:06 AM, mandaillou amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: On the forum, I found people facing the same problem and the error was related to the tapecycle. Mine is 12 and I have 12 reusable tapes. Right -- if you're doing 14 backups (2 weeks, every day), you're not going

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda backup problem - a tape error occured

2008-12-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
mandaillou wrote: NOTES: taper: tape DailySet-05 kb 1783648 fm 2 writing file: No space left on device The tape got full after 1783648 was written, you need bigger tape.