I've got an AIT-2 tape drive, which supposedly will hold 50-100GB. the tapetype that I found, seems to say that it's 43GB:
define tapetype AIT2 { comment "AIT-2 with 230m tapes" length 43778 mbytes filemark 3120 kbytes speed 5371 kps } but what happens when the data is compressible? I'm doing little/no compression on the client side for various reasons; and so amanda thinks it'll run out of space on the tape. However, the tape drive's hardware compression should compress the data down to at least some extent; and we think it should all fit. (there's enough text files & the like, which should compress really well). will I have to enable compression on the clients, so amanda will believe there's enough space? or is there a way to make amanda understand the degree of hardware compression that this tape drive can do? Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com