On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:17 AM, rory_f <[email protected]> wrote: > i'm doing a tape run now, using the original tapetype definition, and it has > filled a tape to around 238gb and moved onto the next one (well it has > changed tapes,it's still waiting to write to tape) > > is this normal?
Amanda treats any error from the tape drive as EOT. It's the nature of UNIX kernel drivers that they don't give much more information than that. So it's quite possible that your tape drive is failing, or the tapes are failing, and intermittent errors are causing the early EOT indication. Alternately, maybe the earlier amtapetype run was made with hardware compression on? The size is about double.. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
