Hi Alex,

> Since you are using hardware compression, the tape length given in the
> tapetype is just an estimate anyway.  It helps amandas scheduler to plan
> its flushes, but in the end she'll always try another block until she
> hits EOT.  That's when you hope the DLE she taped was small and not
> direct-to-tape, because the aborted attempt means wasted time and space
> anyway.  A good tape length estimate will help the scheduler; but if you
> use hardware compression, it will depend on your data.

ok, i'm running amtapetype now and will decrease the value for tape length 
afterwards until amanda stops complaining about EOT. 

thanks,
Kai