On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 04:58:13PM -0500, Ned Danieley wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 09:43:35PM +0000, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > > > > On Jan 4, 2018, at 11:59 AM, Ned Danieley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm using > > > > > > taperalgo largestfit > > > > > > which I assume means that amanda will write to tape the largest DLE > > > available. I have 'runtapes' set to 2, and occasionally I'll see amanda > > > move on to the second tape when the first tape is reporting around 80% > > > full. > > > I'm dumping almost 200 DLE, so it seems like there ought to be some DLEs > > > that would fit in the remaining 20%. is there any way to find out (after > > > the fact) what DLEs were in the queue? I've looked at the taper debug file > > > but it just seems to have a list of each DLE as it is written. > > > > > > I'm using LTO6 tapes, so I should have about 2.5 TB to work with. I know > > > about the ability to split DLEs, but I'm not ready to take that step. > > > > > > > Did you actually test the size of your own tapes? > > > > ah, that makes sense. no, I haven't run 'amtapetype'; I just assumed that > the rated capacity would be accurate. I'll give it a try; in the meantime, > has anyone run 'amtapetype' on an LTO6 tape? I have an HP Ultrium 6 drive.
That 2.5TB is likely marketing-speak using decimal number. Switching to binary TB would immediately reduce the size by nearly 250GB (about 9% of the listed capacity). jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
