T, 06 mai   2008 kirjutas Nigel Allen <dna AT edrs.com DOT au>:

I'm experiencing an odd problem with a USB DAT drive that keeps running
out of space. Apologies for the length of the post.

The drive is supposed to be 36 / 72 GB.

Here's the kind of thing I see when I run a level 0 dump.

These dumps were to tape DailySet1-18.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found].

[snip]

STATISTICS:

Output Size (meg)       33927.1    33927.1        0.0

[snip]


[snip]

define tapetype HP-DAT72 {
   comment "HP DAT72 USB with hardware compression on"
   length 72 G
}

[snip]

define dumptype custom-compress {
  global
  program "GNUTAR"
  comment "Dump with custom client compression"
  exclude list "/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar"
  compress client custom
  client_custom_compress "/usr/bin/bzip2"
}

[snip]

mail.airsolutions.com.au mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 custom-compress

mail.airsolutions.com.au        sda1    custom-compress

Any idea where I can start would be appreciated (apart from "bigger
tape" or "less data").

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Toomas Aas