On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Mike Hogsett wrote:
> Why doesn't amanda use as much tape as I am giving it? I have amanda > configured to use two tape drives ( AIT SDX1-25C tapes ). My tapetype > states that the tapes are 24192 Mb in size. It filled the first tape > and used only used 8+ Gb of the second. Does amanda ever promote dump > levels or only demote them to reduce the dump size? Promotions are done to attempt to equalize the amount of tape used on each run, not to try to fill each tape. -Mitch
