Over the last weeks I fiddle with an installation with the following behavior:
The amanda server is an older gentoo linux box and runs amanda-3.4.5r1 (gentoo package number). The reason I keep this older version is that I have to talk to an amanda client which is way older -> a VM with ancient SUSE Linux and amanda-2.4.0 ... that VM is "read only" in terms of upgrades etc Things work so far, and I assume my issue is not related to the VM. The point is: backups run to a LTO3 tape (remember, 400 GB uncompressed space per definition) And when I run a "weekly" run, which uses "dumpcycle 0" it fills the tape up to ~60% = 239944M and lets a DLE in the holding disk which is small enough to fit on the tape ... ( a 72 GB DLE ) - I disabled hw compression again, and added that to the cron job. I will run amtapetype on a new tape today to determine "my" LTO3 tapetype. Any ideas?
