On another system with a smaller tape drive (limited to about 4-5 GB),
I have been using the new capability in 2.5.x for manual tape changers
and spanning tapes to more than one tape per backup.  This has been
working great and as expected except for the split size.  Within my
dumptype statement, I have the following specifications:

tape_splitsize 410 mbytes
fallback_splitsize 100 mbytes

However, the size of the split archives that are getting written to the
holding disk are approximately 1 GB in size instead of the size shown
above.  What can be done to correct this ?  Am I interpreting this
parameter incorrectly ?


James D. Freels, Ph.D.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
freelsjd AT ornl DOT gov

"Computational tools are important, but there is no substitute for
understanding."
-Will Zimmerman, 05/01/2007