On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 at 2:42pm, Matt Christian wrote

>               NOTES:
>                 taper: tape ARCHIVE-300 kb 10131168 fm 17 writing file: short 
> write
>                 driver: going into degraded mode because of tape error.
> 
> 
> This to me suggests that Amanda "ran out of tape" after writing about 
> 10131 MB, which is strange since (according to the following tapetype 
> definition in amanda.conf) the tape can hold well over 11000 MB.

The tapetype definition isn't really "binding" in any way -- it's how big 
you think the tape is.  But, yes, you should be getting more than that per 
tape.  I'd suspect that hardware compression is turned on.  When you 
hardware compress already compressed data, it blows up.  You can check the 
compression status of the drive with 'tapeinfo', which comes with mtx.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University