On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:31:06PM +0100, Paul Bijnens enlightened us: > >Paul Bijnens wrote: > >>When there is only one image to choose from, Amanda will take that one, > >>even if it will probably not fit. Changing that will make many other > >>users of Amanda unhappy, e.g. those using hardware compression because > >>their tape length is just a wild guess of the truth, or even me, because > >>I underestimate the tape length a bit, so that amanda has a few percent > >>margin with estimates being smaller than real dumps (that's why I get > >>tapes filled with 106%). > > > >That's perfectly o.k. . But im my case there where about 25 images to > >choose from. > > But it will choose the correct one when you specify "taperalgo > largestfit". (The default is the first one found.) >
At least with 2.4.5, largestfit means "of the oldest date, the largest that will fit". If you have 20GB tapes and a dump on Feb 15th that is 23GB and a dump on Feb 16th that is 13GB, it will pick the Feb 15th because it is older. Has this been changed in 2.5? Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
