On Thu, 23 May 2013 13:59:33 +0000
"McGraw, Robert P" <rmcg...@purdue.edu> wrote:

> Why does amanda stop at %52  when I still have 1.5TB of data in the
> holding disk to write to the tape? It is hard to believe that the
> LTO4 compression is so bad that I am not getting any compression at
> all.

It would be if you have both tape drive compression turned on (as you
do) and compression specified in the disk list entries (DLEs).
Conventional wisdom on this list has been that DLE compression (using
gzip, say), is more efficient than tape drive compression.

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