20Gb tape not full

2005-03-14 Thread Mark Lidstone
Hi all, I've had a search through the FAQ, generally on the 'net and through the list archives, but I can't seem to find anyone else reporting similar symptoms to me, so here I go with my first post to the list. If I've made a mistake, please be gentle... I have a Linux box at another site.

Re: 20Gb tape not full

2005-03-14 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:59:13PM -, Mark Lidstone enlightened us: *snipped for brevity* Now, if I'm reading this right, it's saying that it's hit the end of a 20Gb tape at around the 5Gb mark. Here's what I think are the relevant parts of my amanda.conf: tapetype HP-DDS-4 define

Re: 20Gb tape not full

2005-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:59:13PM -, Mark Lidstone wrote: Hi all, I've had a search through the FAQ, generally on the 'net and through the list archives, but I can't seem to find anyone else reporting similar symptoms to me, so here I go with my first post to the list. If I've made a

Re: 20Gb tape not full

2005-03-14 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 at 1:59pm, Mark Lidstone wrote NOTES: taper: tape Haslar12 kb 16875296 fm 5 writing file: No space left on device Now, if I'm reading this right, it's saying that it's hit the end of a 20Gb tape at around the 5Gb mark. Here's what I think are the relevant parts

RE: 20Gb tape not full

2005-03-14 Thread Mark Lidstone
Hi all, Thanks very much for the replies. It didn't occur to me to check hardware compression. One comment to make, though - I am using a holding disk, and currently it's free space is greater than the amount of data being backed up, so does this log look like something's going screwy there

RE: 20Gb tape not full

2005-03-14 Thread Mark Lidstone
Ooops. Answering my own question. I had a limit on the amount of space to use on the holding disk - Just increased it, so that should sort it. Righto, have turned off hardware compression (using mt -f /dev/nst0 compression 0), changed my tapetype (see below) and, as I said, increased the size

Re: 20Gb tape not full

2005-03-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 March 2005 08:59, Mark Lidstone wrote: Hi all, I've had a search through the FAQ, generally on the 'net and through the list archives, but I can't seem to find anyone else reporting similar symptoms to me, so here I go with my first post to the list. If I've made a mistake,

tapecycle and the doc

2005-03-14 Thread Tom Schutter
I had some questions regarding tapecycle, and after reading the man page and the doc (old and new), I think that they fall short on describing what tapecycle should be set to. The minimum value of tapecycle is well covered, but not the maximum value, and how tapecycle should relate to the number

Re: 20Gb tape not full

2005-03-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 March 2005 10:14, Mark Lidstone wrote: Ooops. Answering my own question. I had a limit on the amount of space to use on the holding disk - Just increased it, so that should sort it. Righto, have turned off hardware compression (using mt -f /dev/nst0 compression 0), changed my

Re: signal 13 (PIPE) error.

2005-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:37:11PM +, Bruce S. Skinner wrote: My last dozen or so emails to amanda-users have gone into a black hole, I'll try this from another network under another subject. So let's try and walk (crawl?) before we run. I've set things up with only one small disk

Re: tapecycle and the doc

2005-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:14:43AM -0700, Tom Schutter wrote: I had some questions regarding tapecycle, and after reading the man page and the doc (old and new), I think that they fall short on describing what tapecycle should be set to. The minimum value of tapecycle is well covered, but not