On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 07:58:29PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> Sebastian,
> 
> amanda think your data are not compressible because you didn't use 
> software compression before.
> It will adapt to the new config after a few run.
> 
> Temporary, you can lie to amanda and increase the length of your tapetype.
> 
> Jean-Louis

IIRC, for a new DLE amanda assumes a 50% compressability.  Does your comment
imply that for DLE's that did not use compression, that a 0% compressability
is recorded in the curinfo file?  Wouldn't it be better to record an "unknown"
flag instead to prevent problems like Sebastian is encountering?


> 
> Sebastian Henrich wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm using amanda 2.4.5 to backup my server. The tape is a HP DAT 72. 
> >This drives stores 36 GB of uncompressed data. I switched the hardware 
> >compression off and tried to use the software compression. Now I have 
> >the problem that amanda tells me every time
> >
> >INFO planner Incremental of server:/srv/samba/profile bumped to level 2.
> >INFO planner server /home 20070404 0 [dumps too big, 15459005 KB, full 
> >dump delayed]
> >
> >Amanda is configured to do a full backup each time which is impossible 
> >at the moment. I tried to backup ~45 GB of well compressable data. 
> >Normally amanda should be able to store the files compressed on the tape.
> >
> >Has anybody some hints for me?
> >
> >  Thanks
> >
> >      Sebastian
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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