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Date:      Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:02:13 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Heiko Schellhorn <schell@iup.physik.uni-bremen.de>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out ....
Message-ID:  <3E3A8FF5.5000904@potentialtech.com>
References:  <200301311259.h0VCx0u30216@lv.raad.tartu.ee>

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Toomas Aas wrote:
>>planner: FATAL cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out
>>
>>The directory I want to backup has 59GB. The tape has native 100GB and 
>>compressed estimated 200GB capacity. 
> 
> What is the length parameter in your tapetype?

I've gotten around this by using the -a parameter to dump.

Unfortunately, I've also seen it where the tape density was wrong, and I
had to manually set it in order for the tape to hold what it was designed
to hold.  Still got it working, it just required some research.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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