This one time, at band camp, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> In general, we only need one LTO1 a day, this particular DLE is a
>>> freak statistic well outside the standard deviations of the other
>>> DLE sizes, so doing a flush once every cycle is more appealing
>>> than allocating two tapes per run.
>
>Can you, by using tar, break that dle up into smaller pieces?  This 
>will aid amanda quite a bit in arriving at a schedule thats usable.

See below :-)

>>> At this stage, splitting this DLE into smaller chunks is also not
>>> an option, in case you were wondering.
>>
>>That would have been the next suggestion.
>
>It still is. :-)

Suggestion noted.