On 21 Mar 2002 at 9:19am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > It seems that no matter what I set tapetype's length to (i.e., no matter > how small I say the tape is) amanda hits end-of-tape. > > Please correct me if I am wrong but... > > I thought that if I set the tapetype length to a conservative value, > then amanda would schedule only enough file-systems (level 0, 1, 2 > etc...) to fit on the tape, and then put what wouldn't fit on the next > days tape.
That depends -- how conservative is conservative? > Instead I am hitting EOT every day and amanda fills up the holding area > until I can flush it (which I do not want to have to do). > > Please let me know what information you may need to help me diagnose > what's wrong. I have been trying for two weeks now with no progress. What model tape drive? Are you using software compression? Hardware compression? Both? Are you seeing any messages in your system logs? What does a sample run report look like? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
