On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:27:22AM -0600, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote:
> Hi all - 
> 
> I have amanda 2.4.2p2 running on a RH 7.3 box with a Quantum SuperDLT 110GB 
> tape drive. I am currently sending 11-13GB to this drive depending on the 
> day...
> 
> amanda is telling me my dump is too big and degrading my level 0's to level 
> 1! How is this possible? I run amdump from a script called by cron and have 
> for some time. The first line in my script rewinds the tape, just in case. I 
> have tried multiple tapes, so I don't believe it is a media issue.  Here is 
> my amdump report:
> 
> Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:19       0:19       0:00
> Tape Size (meg)         11553.1    11508.2       44.9
> Tape Used (%)              99.8       99.4        0.4   (level:#disks ...)

Note amanda thinks it has exausted the tape (99.8% full) but I've seen no
indication of it encountering an EOT.  Perhaps your tapetype entry incorrectly
lists the capacity of the tape as about 11.6 GB rather than 116 GB?

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