On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 09:38:00PM -0500, Kevin Zembower wrote:
> I'm having problems when I try to set amanda up to completely fill my
> tapes. One of my disklist entries is about 600GB at level 0. I'm using
> amanda 3.2.1 on a RHEL5 tapehost with Ultrium tapes that hold 200GB. I
> set:
>   flush-threshold-dumped 100
>   flush-threshold-scheduled 100
>   taperflush 100
>   autoflush yes
> 
> When I watch amstatus, I see the big DLE tape tape up to 100%, but then
> it reports a PARTIAL tape. Then all the other DLEs waiting to tape
> report "process canceled waiting to be taped" and they stay on the
> holding disk. The report states that 602GB were left on the holding
> disk.
> 
> When I set the three variables to 0, taping proceeds normally, and the
> big DLE and the rest of the DLEs span four tapes correctly. However,
> most of the time, the tapes are only filled to less than 5%.
> 
> Any suggestions on what I can do to fill tapes to capacity? Thanks for
> your help and suggestions.

No suggestion, just a clarification.  No DLE is a candidate
to be taped, or is included in the flush-threshold-dumped
calculation UNTIL it is completely dumped to the holding disk.
So your 600GB DLE might dump 300% of a single tape capacity
before it will tape or be included in the threshold calc.

jl
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