On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:13:32AM -0400, Jesse Griffis wrote: > Hello, > > Briefly, I have an Exabyte EZ-17 with a Mammoth-2 drive inside. I'm running it on a >dual-CPU RedHat 7.2 server with plenty of RAM and a holding disk around 25 GB (I can >certainly provide more detail when / if needed). > > I've been able to figure out 99% of the Amanda process (some trial and error, lots >of research on this list, among other good web sites out there), but I'm stuck now, >and the boss is about to make me go spend a thousand bucks on Veritas' or someone >else's... > > I am getting an odd end-of-tape error on every tape, every time I try to write a >very large file. Below is the Amanda report for the last attempt I tried. I'm >chopping out some of the extraneous detail (the STRANGE results on some of the drives >is from NT machines, files with odd characters, thanks to Word). Can someone explain >why 7.7% used tape would give me an out-of-tape error? On the holding disk, the >/home partition is about 4.6 GB and there is much space remaining (10 GB right now, >even though there are numerous holdings stuck there for the moment...) >
breaking up long lines with <CR> would be appreciated by some of us. > Any help at all would be greatly appreciated! 7.7% is probably a calculated value based on your tapetype setting. You don't show that. What do you claim is the capacity of your tape? Are you be claiming 60GB? That is 4.59GB / 0.077. Is that valid for your drive and tape combination? Are you using (perhaps unknowingly) hardware compression? That should never be used in combination with the software compression you are using. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
