On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 at 11:39am, Steve Cousins wrote > I suppose I could change the length in the DLT tapetype to something > higher but that seems to be too coarse a solution. It would throw off the > planner when other volumes use compression. > That is exactly what you have to do when you use hardware compression -- lie about your tape length to amanda. I'm not quite sure what you mean by the second statement. Since you've set your tape device to the compressing device, *all* your dumps are using hardware compression. So, estimate how well hardware compression will work (hint -- it's not 2X), and tell amanda that tape length. For an AIT-1 drive (35GB native), I use 50GB, and haven't hit EOT yet.
-- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
