This one time, at band camp, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> >>Since re-reading the manpage, thanks to some advice here, I've increased >>runtapes to 2, which I think will solve this. I didn't realise that it was >>an upper limit rather than an absolute, although I'm still unconvinced that >>Amanda will continue to use only one tape except in this extreme case; >>we'll >>see in the next week how well it goes. > > >Jean-Louis said this already: there is also the parameter "maxdumpsize" >to override the default of "runtapes * tapacapacity" upper limit. >That way you can still keep runtapes to whatever you like best, and >still collect DLE that did not fit into runtapes collect into >holdingdisk. This avoids having writen one tape to 100% and the next >one with 1%.
Ah, cool. Thanks.
