On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:26:20PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> If you are really looking to get all of the dumps, regardless of what
> will actually fit on the tape you could always lie about the tape length.

This is less desirable than some of the other options, at least
if you're using any of the "whatever-fit" taperalgo's.  In that
case, Amanda chooses which DLE to tape next based partly on how
much tape it thinks there is left.  If you've lied about the tape
length, Amanda will sometimes pick a DLE that's too big, under
the mistaken impression that there's room for it.  This will
waste tape space, and time as well.

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