I've been watching the balance report all week, waiting for amanda 
to take some corrective action over the fact that its going to 
overshoot a tapefull when  it runs again in the morning, but so 
far, the adjustments the scheduler has made have not made a 
measurable difference.  Maybe 20 megs in a 250 meg overshoot of a 
dds2 tape.

Is there some setting in the amanda.conf file that can defeat 
amanda's attempts to level out to average, the size of the nightly 
backups?

I see reports that it moved so and so's level 0 up, in several cases 
a full five days, but it doesn't seem to have effected the balance 
report at all.  Runtapes is set to one, so it knows its only got 
one tape per nightly run.

What do I check?

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Cheers, Gene
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