On 2007-05-07 19:01, Freels, James D. wrote:
> 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 ?
You confusing the "chunksize" for holdingdisk with "tape_splitsize"
for (v)tapes.
> "Computational tools are important, but there is no substitute for
> understanding."
indeed. :-)
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