This one time, at band camp, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>>
>>Since re-reading the manpage, thanks to some advice here, I've increased
>>runtapes to 2, which I think will solve this.  I didn't realise that it was
>>an upper limit rather than an absolute, although I'm still unconvinced that
>>Amanda will continue to use only one tape except in this extreme case; 
>>we'll
>>see in the next week how well it goes.
>
>
>Jean-Louis said this already: there is also the parameter "maxdumpsize"
>to override the default of "runtapes * tapacapacity" upper limit.
>That way you can still keep runtapes to whatever you like best, and
>still collect DLE that did not fit into runtapes collect into 
>holdingdisk.  This avoids having writen one tape to 100% and the next 
>one with 1%.

Ah, cool.  Thanks.