Hi frinds and Amanda User's ...

Please ... Look ... I'm user of cart model TRAVAN NS20  for Full_bkp's,
but I don't know why the taper don't use the full capacity of these
tapes (20Gb).
The max utilization is in 10Gb ... 

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Look the log:
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These dumps were to tapes AMF902, AMF903.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Input/output error]].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to used are: AMF904, AMF901.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  prods6.hc. //prods1/netlogon lev 0 STRANGE
  prods6.hc. /nihc_var lev 0 STRANGE
  prods6.hc. //samara/Projetos lev 0 STRANGE
  prods6.hc. /vivian_httpd lev 0 STRANGE
  prods6.hc. //samara/util lev 0 STRANGE
  prods6.hc. //samara/util lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:15
Run Time (hrs:min)         8:34
Dump Time (hrs:min)        4:32       4:32       0:00
Output Size (meg)       11351.0    11351.0        0.0
Original Size (meg)     18421.5    18421.5        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)    61.6       61.6        -- 
Filesystems Dumped           68         68          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)       711.8      711.8        -- 

Tape Time (hrs:min)        3:22       3:22       0:00
Tape Size (meg)          8636.1     8636.1        0.0
Tape Used (%)              43.8       43.8        0.0
Filesystems Taped            67         67          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)   728.7      728.7        -- 

. . .

NOTES:
  driver: WARNING: /backup_full/amanda: 9437184 KB requested, but only
4734548 KB available.
  taper: tape AMF902 kb 7807520 fm 67 writing file: Input/output error
  taper: retrying prods6.hc.unicamp.br://samara/util_02.0 on new tape:
[writing file: Input/output error]
  taper: tape AMF903 kb 2445792 fm 2 writing file: Input/output error
  driver: going into degraded mode because of tape error.

. . .

DUMP SUMMARY:
                                                   DUMPER
STATS               TAPER STATS 
HOSTNAME  DISK                         L ORIG-KB OUT-KB  COMP% MMM:SS  
KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
----------------------------------------
----------------------------------- ------------
prods6.hc //samara/util                0 3566602 2783369  78.0  38:57
1191.0  FAILED  ----

. . .
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Reply me how to increase total capacity size for this cart TRAVAN NS/20
... tks so much

what configuration I must to change/implement in amanda.conf ??

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===>>> See how it is today:
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#
tapedev "/dev/nst0"
#
tapetype   DLT
#
define tapetype DLT {
    comment "DLT - TRAVAN NS20 tape drives"
    length 20000 mbytes         # 20 Gig tapes
    filemark 2000 kbytes        # I don't know what this means
    speed 1536 kbytes           # 1.5 Mb/s
 }
#
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And ... 

.... please ===>>>> what're these msg's:

1) -> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Input/output error]].

2) -> prods6.hc. //samara/util lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]



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Tanks so much,
Best regards, 

Giuseppe Della Rigolletta