Re: A solution for taper and dumps larger than a single tape?

[Bernhard R. Erdmann]

"Brian J. Murrell" wrote:
[...]
> So why not stop writing before getting the EOT?  If Amanda stops writing
> after the last full block before the expected physical EOT (or sooner if
> you want) and resumes on the next tape, is that problem no longer a
> problem?
> 
> What am I missing?

How do you know the exact EOT when using hardware compression?