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> us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 11:33 AM
> To: amanda-users@amanda.org
> Subject: Re: Tape Usage Question
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> On Wednesday 07
On Wednesday 07 July 2010, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-
>> us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 11:33 AM
>> To: amanda-users@amanda.org
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On Wednesday 07 July 2010, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
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>> From: djmit...@gmail.com [mailto:djmit...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
>> Dustin J. Mitchell
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 1:14 AM
>> To: McGraw, Robert P
>> Cc: amanda-users@a
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> From: djmit...@gmail.com [mailto:djmit...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Dustin J. Mitchell
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 1:14 AM
> To: McGraw, Robert P
> Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org
> Subject: Re: Tape Usage Question
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>
> On Tue, J
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:56 PM, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
> In my case there were several dump image that could have been written to the
> tape. Amanda did not seem to pick the largest dump image that would fit on
> the tape.
Well, bear in mind that the tape drive does not give any indication of
From: djmit...@gmail.com [djmit...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell
[dus...@zmanda.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 1:00 PM
To: McGraw, Robert P
Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org
Subject: Re: Tape Usage Question
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:22 AM, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
> Why would ama
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:22 AM, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
> Why would amanda pick a 37GB file when there is only ~28GB left on the tape
> and when there were plenty of files waiting to go to tape that were less than
> 28GB?
Amanda doesn't track a notion of "how much space is left on the tape"
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I am running Amanda 3.1.1 on a Sun Solaris 10 x86 server.
MY QUESTION:
As you can see below when tape D01004 was at 92% and amanda was looking for a
file to finish writing to the remainder of the tape, amanda picked a file that
was 37GB in size which is
much greater than the remaining size o
