Backing up problem
 

Hi

Im having problems backing up my home pc. Im running the latest version of Madriva on a new Dell celeron pc with 80Gb hard drive and 512Mb ram, Also an old 12/24 DAT drive.
I set up a nightly backup onto the DAT drive through the Mandriva control centre, all worked fine for a few weeks, then all of a sudden stopped working.
When i try to do a backup manualy it returns the error message 'Backup destination quota exceeded! 8308 MB used vs 1000 MB allocated'
I looked through the Drakbackup configuration file, its got 'Save on hard drive on path /var/lib/drakbackup Limit disk usage to 1000 MB'
Ive looked through all the options and found no where i can change this 1000MB limit.
Does anyone know what im doing wrong?
Any help would be apricated!

Cheers Martin

if you want to back up to disk, try sbackup (Simpe Backup), a program developed via some google competition last summer.

i'v tried it.. it is easy, complete and most importantly, it WORKS :)

Maybe you have to erase the tapes before you try to record a new backup. If there is already a backup on the tape the backup program will probably skip past that and then try to perform the backup with whatever space is left on the tape.