OK, I collected Chris's example and some text from http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Fill_tapes_to_100%25 into http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Delay_writing_to_tape_for_better_tape_utilization
But this doesn't have a lot of details on the "new school" way of doing things. Please have a look at the parameters, and at the example Amanda configuration[1], and fill this section out! Dustin [1] http://amanda.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/amanda/amanda/trunk/example/amanda.conf.in?revision=1285&view=markup -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com