On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:31:06PM +0100, Paul Bijnens enlightened us:
> >Paul Bijnens wrote:
> >>When there is only one image to choose from, Amanda will take that one,
> >>even if it will probably not fit.  Changing that will make many other
> >>users of Amanda unhappy, e.g. those using hardware compression because
> >>their tape length is just a wild guess of the truth, or even me, because
> >>I underestimate the tape length a bit, so that amanda has a few percent
> >>margin with estimates being smaller than real dumps (that's why I get
> >>tapes filled with 106%).
> >
> >That's perfectly o.k. . But im my case there where about 25 images to 
> >choose from.
> 
> But it will choose the correct one when you specify "taperalgo 
> largestfit". (The default is the first one found.)
>

At least with 2.4.5, largestfit means "of the oldest date, the largest that
will fit". 

If you have 20GB tapes and a dump on Feb 15th that is 23GB and a dump on Feb
16th that is 13GB, it will pick the Feb 15th because it is older.

Has this been changed in 2.5?

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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