<quote who="Neil Marjoram"> > I have just completed a tapetype on my Storedge L9 with DLT 8000 again, > and I'm a little confused. > > The DLT 8000 drive can take 80GB compressed, the results return 40GB. > Amstatus shows that the amount of data stored on each tape is always > less than 40G, the latest output from the status is : > tape 1 : 66 27906885k 25125884k ( 68.13%) AG3600 > tape 2 : 1 9085868k 9327611k ( 22.18%) AG3602 > tape 3 : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) AG3598 > > My question is two part,
Hi Neil, First things first, we really need to see the dumptype definitions you are using. > a. how do I get amanda to backup 80GB to the > DLT, This is done two ways, having compression enabled in your dumptype definition or having hardware compression enabled on your actual drive, with compressin then being disabled in your dumptype definition. > and secondly why is it that the second tape in a three part backup > never holds as much data as the first tape? Because that will probably be your incremental backup goes. > The backup shown above is > still running and currently saving to tape 3. Or am I barking up > completly the wrong tree? > > define tapetype DLT-L9 { > comment "DLT 8000 - Storedge L9" > length 40000 mbytes > filemark 22 kbytes > speed 1770 kbytes > > I am using the chg-zd-mtx script to handle the autoloader, Fedora Core 2 > as my OS and Amanda version 2.4.4p2-3. > > Many thanks, > > Neil. > Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/