Brian Debelius wrote: > Is there a way I can work around the end of tape MTWEOF error by telling > bacula to limit the amount of data written to the tape? Lets say I have > an 80GB tape. Is there a way to tell bacula to only write 75 or 70GB > and then start a new tape? > > My next thought is, Can logic be added to bacula such that when it > realizes that it has written off the end of the tape, to have it rewind > some amount of blocks, write an eof, and then continue onto the next > tape, starting with and duplicating the blocks it backspaced over on the > first tape? > > brian > Thinking out loud, I see that there is a 'Maximum Volume Bytes' directive that can be used in the pool resource. Tapeinfo shows that the tape size; Partition 0 Size in Kbytes: 76958720. If I multiply this by 1024 to get bytes or 78805729280, can I use this as the Maximum Volume Bytes to limit the the amount of data written to the tape?
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