I didn't give it an estimate no - If i were to would i estimate the
'uncompressed' capacity, in this case 100gig?

I'm loathed to stop it now as its been running since yesterday afternoon and
is currently

Estimated time to write 2 * 1024 Mbyte: 174 sec = 0 h 2 min
wrote 3167649 32Kb blocks in 9687 files in 27409 seconds (short write)
wrote 2930929 32Kb blocks in 17898 files......

so i think it might be nearly finished?

Tom


> Tom Brown wrote:
> > Does anyone have a tapetype for this drive? I'm running amtapetype but
its
> > been running for about 20 hours and has not yet finished!
>
> Did you specify an estimate for the capacity?  This speeds the
> process up considerably.
> amtapetype -e 40g ...
>
> The default estimate is 1Gbyte. amtapetape write 100 files (estimated
> size divide by 100) in the first pass, and the files of half that
> size in the second pass (200 files).  If you your drive is 40 Gbyte,
> it writes 4000 files + 8000 files; this is slow.
>
>
> amanda-hackers,
>
> If we change the algoritm to:
>
> first pass: one large file until end of tape;
> second pass: the amount of the first pass / 100.
>
> Would this affect the accuracy of the calculation?
>
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