Gour-Gadadhara,
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:30:33AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 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 <j...@jgcomp.com> 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.
The default is not to span DLE across tape volumes, if it tried
to write a second DLE to a tape and it didn't _ALL_ fit it would
fail the DLE and write it to the next tape volume.
Yes, this results in unused tape after the successfull DLE, but
amanda does not rewind/re-write with another DLE, its a safety
precaution not to back the tape up and try another DLE.
I'm not sure what the default DLE to flush selection is, but because
I want to get as much on a tape as I can I choose the setting
"largest fit" and have been very pleased with the result.
Brian
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