Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
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> On 21 Mar 2002 at 9:19am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
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> > 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?
just as a follow-on to this -- I have a situation where a project is
scanning archival images. they have an external array on one of my
servers and are filling it with TIFF images. these images do not
compress. the file format is inherently already compressed. JPEG also.
if I were using hardware compression and giving a "conservative"
estimate of say 18G for a DDS3 tape, I would hit end of tape every time.
I only get 12G. If I were doing plain vanilla unix stuff, I would get
close to 24G.
HTH
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