On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 at 8:02am, Geoff Swavley wrote

> I was wondering if anyone could tell me why amanda seems to split
> my filesystem into 2 "holding" files? An error has occurred so these filesare

This is normal, and the size of the chunks are set by the 'chunksize' 
parameter in amanda.conf.

> NOTES:
>   taper: tape schedule8-WEEK3 kb 31851520 fm 1 writing file: short write
>   driver: going into degraded mode because of tape error.

How big are your tapes?  It looks like you hit EOT here...

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University