> > > You know you have a DLE that is too big to tape and that amanda
> > > does not handle it well.  Isn't it time to stop wasting time
> > > and tape and split the DLE?

> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:51:15AM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > Ah, I'm sorry!  I should not assume that amanda can do it's own math.  I
> > must sit down with a calculator every night and do my own estimates and
> > make this all work?
> > Jon, this is a fairly serious problem with amanda.  Why are you blaming the
> > reporter instead of trying to fix the problem?

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:14:16PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> No, I was commenting on the futility of trying again something that failed
> once unexpectedly, you knew it was going to fail again, and have known from
> 5 years of amanda experience that that particular situation would always fail.
 
THAT was already done.  Several days ago.  What I didn't stop to do was
delete the amount to flush because I assumed amanda would do the math and
realize it couldn't back it up and then discard it.  I didn't expect taper
to blindly attempt something guaranteed to fail.

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Joe Rhett
senior geek
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