Comperession/Tape Size Issues

2003-07-07 Thread Joshua D. Bello
I am currently experiencing problems with Amanda backup runs completing successfully, supposedly due to running out of tape. I am using Amanda 2.4.3 on a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE machine, backing up to 35/70GB DLT 7000 drive. Compression is enabled on the drive, and we are also using compression

Re: Comperession/Tape Size Issues

2003-07-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 at 10:26am, Joshua D. Bello wrote I am currently experiencing problems with Amanda backup runs completing successfully, supposedly due to running out of tape. I am using Amanda 2.4.3 on a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE machine, backing up to 35/70GB DLT 7000 drive. Compression is

Re: Comperession/Tape Size Issues

2003-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 July 2003 13:26, Joshua D. Bello wrote: I am currently experiencing problems with Amanda backup runs completing successfully, supposedly due to running out of tape. I am using Amanda 2.4.3 on a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE machine, backing up to 35/70GB DLT 7000 drive. Compression is

Re: Comperession/Tape Size Issues

2003-07-07 Thread Joshua D. Bello
Thank you to everybody for their help and suggestions. I went ahead and disabled hardware compression on my drive. Unfortunately, I am running into further problems in my attempts to clear out the previously spooled dumps with amflush. amflush fails after a short time without writing anything

Re: Comperession/Tape Size Issues

2003-07-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:16:33PM -0700, Joshua D. Bello wrote: I get the same results, whether I pick A, B, or ALL. The amflush report looks like: STATISTICS: big fat 0's for every reported time and size value Avg Compressed Size, Avg Dump Rate and Avg Tp Write Rate all report -- It

Re: Comperession/Tape Size Issues

2003-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 July 2003 18:16, Joshua D. Bello wrote: Thank you to everybody for their help and suggestions. I went ahead and disabled hardware compression on my drive. Unfortunately, I am running into further problems in my attempts to clear out the previously spooled dumps with amflush.