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Subject:    Re: cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out ....
From:       "Marc W. Mengel" <mengel () fnal ! gov>
Date:       2003-01-31 23:50:45
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If you're using dump rather than tar for backups, on some platforms,
it will try to backup the whole drive anyway...

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Marc Mengel <mengel@fnal.gov>

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Heiko Schellhorn wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've installed amanda 2.4.3 on Suse 8.0, controlling an Qualstar TLS  4480 (80
> Slots) AIT-3. I'm testing this configuration first time.
> The library and amanda are working fine together.
>
> I get this message by amanda:
> planner: FATAL cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out
>
> The directory I want to backup has 59GB. The tape has native 100GB and
> compressed estimated 200GB capacity.
> The backup should fit nearly two times to the tape compressed yet nearly 4
> times.
>
> Has anyone an suggestion why I get this message and how to solve.
> May it be amanda calculates the size of the partition where the directory is
> stored ? Because the partition has 800GB and is consequently bigger than tape
> capacity.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Heiko
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