On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:41:22AM +0200, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:02:12 -0400
> Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Nothing strange there. It attempted to put it a DLE, or depending on
> > your configuation, a chunk of the DLE on to a tape but it didn't
> > fit. Thus it retried that DLE or chunk on the next tape and
> > succeeded.
>
> Hmm, that's a bit strange because Eacho DLE was selected in a way to
> fit on the tape.
But nothing told it to put each DLE on a new tape. So after completing
the taping of one DLE, maybe there was still 1, 5, 10, or ??? of the
tape unused. The next DLE didn't fit on the remaining tape.
>
> > > STATISTICS:
> > > Total Full Incr. Level:#
> > > -------- -------- -------- --------
> > > Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00
> > > Run Time (hrs:min) 14:23
> > > Dump Time (hrs:min) 13:11 13:11 0:00
> > > Output Size (meg) 736042.0 736042.0 0.0
> > > Original Size (meg) 647112.1 647112.1 0.0
> > > Avg Compressed Size (%) 113.7 113.7 --
> >
> > Looks like you should not be trying to compress these data.
>
> Good catch.
>
> Here is my config:
>
> define dumptype simple-gnutar-local {
> auth "local"
> compress none
> program "GNUTAR"
> record no
> }
>
>
> which means that it could be only due to hardware compression or not?
>
>
> >
> > > DLEs Dumped 4 4 0
> > > Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 15874.3 15874.3 --
> > >
> > > Tape Time (hrs:min) 14:22 14:22 0:00
> > > Tape Size (meg) 736042.0 736042.0 0.0
> > > Tape Used (%) 378.3 378.3 0.0
> > > DLEs Taped 7 7 0
> > > Parts Taped 7 7 0
> >
> > You are not splitting your DLE into chunks (parts == DLEs).
>
> This is also strange...I have 4 tapes only and 4 DLEs defined...From
> where it arrives to 7?
How many parts failed?
I'm unsure if failed tapings should accumulate in "Parts and DLEs Taped",
but it seems to be the situation in your case.
jl
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