Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:02:13 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Heiko Schellhorn <schell@iup.physik.uni-bremen.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out .... Message-ID: <3E3A8FF5.5000904@potentialtech.com> References: <200301311259.h0VCx0u30216@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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Toomas Aas wrote: >>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. > > What is the length parameter in your tapetype? I've gotten around this by using the -a parameter to dump. Unfortunately, I've also seen it where the tape density was wrong, and I had to manually set it in order for the tape to hold what it was designed to hold. Still got it working, it just required some research. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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