Amanda-Users

Re: Failed dumps with new amanda client

2006-06-19 21:09:48
Subject: Re: Failed dumps with new amanda client
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: up AT 3 DOT am
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:59:47 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 at 6:45pm, up AT 3 DOT am wrote

 taper: tape FULL0 kb 24499968 fm 9 writing file: short write

*snip*

define tapetype DLT7000 {

   comment "DEC/Quantum DLT7000 tape drive, hardware compression turned
off"
   length 35000 mbytes
   filemark 8 kbytes
   speed 5 mbytes
}

I'd be awfully suspicious that you're running with hardware compression enabled (quite possibly unbeknownest to you).

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University