Amanda-Users

Re: short write even if the dumps are just 10% of the tape size

2005-01-18 04:35:57
Subject: Re: short write even if the dumps are just 10% of the tape size
From: Peter Guhl <pgnews AT siconline DOT ch>
To: Amanda Mailingliste <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:25:42 +0100
Hi


On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:09, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Is that tape being properly rewound Peter?  Most drives will fully 
> rewind a tape before they allow it to be ejected, maybe you should 
> eject it and look at it between each pass.

It's probably not rewound, you're right. Eject and look at it is hard -
there are 50km between me and this tape ;) But I guess it doesn't really
matter since it's too much written for beeing at the end and too few for
beeing at the beginning. No matter where it starts - it should write
until the end and then either rewind (=write another 15GB the next time
I try) or stay there (= writing 0B). At least that's what I suspect if
it acts logically.

Regards
   Peter