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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.

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