Dump larger than available tape space

From wiki.zmanda.com
Revision as of 22:58, 8 June 2007 by Dustin (talk | contribs) (from http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?t=615)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Problem

amdump's nightly mail complains:

Examples of users seeing this message include:

Explanation

Amanda estimates the size of each DLE before beginning to dump anything. If the estimated size for a DLE is larger than the size of a tape, then (assuming spanning is not enabled) Amanda knows it will never be able to fit that dump on a tape, and produces this log message.

Solution

Either enable tape spanning or break your DLEs into smaller, more manageable DLEs.

Retrieved from ‘http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php?title=Dump_larger_than_available_tape_space&oldid=4997’