On 2007-05-07 19:01, Freels, James D. wrote: > On another system with a smaller tape drive (limited to about 4-5 GB), > I have been using the new capability in 2.5.x for manual tape changers > and spanning tapes to more than one tape per backup. This has been > working great and as expected except for the split size. Within my > dumptype statement, I have the following specifications: > > tape_splitsize 410 mbytes > fallback_splitsize 100 mbytes > > However, the size of the split archives that are getting written to the > holding disk are approximately 1 GB in size instead of the size shown > above. What can be done to correct this ? Am I interpreting this > parameter incorrectly ?
You confusing the "chunksize" for holdingdisk with "tape_splitsize" for (v)tapes. > "Computational tools are important, but there is no substitute for > understanding." indeed. :-) -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, * * F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************