Re: Tape size problem

[Alexander Jolk]

Lloyd Weehuizen wrote:

I have been using Amanda to automate backups to a Ultrium LTO 2 device
for about a year now. Up until now there have been no issues and the
backups were easily fitting on the tapes. However lately the datasize is
going above 100Gig and for some reason Amanda is reporting it has
reached the end of the device even though it is a 200G native tape.


Are you sure your drive and tapes are LTO-2?  I'm using LTO-2 with 
hardware compression off, and I routinely hit EOT around 206 million KB.


Alex





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RE: Tape size problem

[Lloyd Weehuizen]

Yes, heres /proc/scsi/devices:

Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP   Model: Ultrium 2-SCSI   Rev: F5AH
  Type:   Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03

And the tapes I'm using are Imation Black Watch 400GB/200GB Ultrium LTO
2.

Thanks,
Lloyd

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Lloyd Weehuizen wrote:
 I have been using Amanda to automate backups to a Ultrium LTO 2 device

 for about a year now. Up until now there have been no issues and the 
 backups were easily fitting on the tapes. However lately the datasize 
 is going above 100Gig and for some reason Amanda is reporting it has 
 reached the end of the device even though it is a 200G native tape.

Are you sure your drive and tapes are LTO-2?  I'm using LTO-2 with 
hardware compression off, and I routinely hit EOT around 206 million KB.

Alex





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Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie
tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 /  fax +33-1 42 68 18 29