On Fri, 26 May 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:

> >     tape_splitsize 3 Gb
> >
> > tapetype DLT7000
> > define tapetype DLT7000 {
> >     comment "DEC/Quantum DLT7000 tape drive, hardware compression turned 
> > off"
> >     length 30000 mbytes
> >     filemark 8 kbytes
> >     speed 5 mbytes
> > }
> >
> > I can see that the backup has continued onto another tape but is it a
> > problem that taper has reached the end of the tape?
>
> That is the way amanda determines that it is time to start the next tape,
> it bumps into the end of the current tape.
>
> The chunk it was writing is rewritten on the next tape.

OK- thanks for the clarification.

>
> NOTE:  two things don't jive, your claim of spanning chunks of 3Gb and
> the reports that amanda is writing nearly 3000 chunks per tape (fm 29XX).
> Either you have another definition for tape_splitsize overriding the one
> you show, or amanda is not recognizing the Gb suffix.  On the amanda.conf
> manpage Gb is `not' listed as a valid suffix for gigabyte.

I got the 'Gb' unit from here:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes

s.