05-27-2013
Many people have issues with LT05 capacities. You mention that your tape drive is 1.5TB native. Does that mean that it's circa 3TB with compression?? What model of LT05 is it exactly? Is hardware compression enabled on it?
Also, what is your backup utility? Are you using tar or cpio or some backup suite? With Unix commands you can normally set the tape capacity and, if you do that, the number of bytes backed up is "counted" as the tape is written and the command calls for a new volume when that number of bytes is reached. It has nothing to do with hitting the actual end-of-tape or anything like that. With some backup suites the tape capacity is often set in a configuration file somewhere.
As other respondees have said, please post more information of your configuration.
Meantime, search for "LT05 compression" on the web.
In this example the discussion covers not getting the 1.5TB capacity even with compression switched off (ie, native) and reformatting tapes to resolve.
LTO5 Tape is not using the complete capacity of 1,5TB (uncompressed) + Compression not working | Symantec Connect Community
Hope that helps. Please post your progress or lack of progress.
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amtapetype
AMTAPETYPE(8) System Administration Commands AMTAPETYPE(8)
NAME
amtapetype - generate a tapetype definition by testing the device directly
SYNOPSIS
amtapetype [-h] [-c] [-f] [-p] [-b blocksize] [-t typename] [-l label] [-o configoption...] [config] [device]
DESCRIPTION
amtapetype generates a tapetype entry for Amanda by testing the device directly.
OPTIONS
Note
The options for amtapetype have changed in version 2.6.1
-h
Display the help message.
-c
Run only the hardware compression detection heuristic test and stop. This takes a few minutes only.
-f
Run amtapetype even if the loaded volume is already labeled.
-p
Run only the device property discovery.
-b blocksize
block size to use with the device (default: 32k)
-t typename
Name to give to the new tapetype definition.
-l label
Label to write on the tape (default is randomly generated).
-o configoption
See the "CONFIGURATION OVERRIDE" section in amanda(8).
If a configuration is specified, it is loaded and used to configure the device. Note that global configuration parameters are not applied
to the device, so if you need to apply properties to a device to run amtapetype, you should supply those properties in a named device
section.
EXAMPLE
Generate a tapetype definition for your tape device:
% amtapetype -f /dev/nst0
NOTES
If the device cannot reliably report its comprssion status (and as of this writing, no devices can do so), hardware compression is detected
by measuring the writing speed difference of the tape drive when writing an amount of compressable and uncompresseable data. If your tape
drive has very large buffers or is very fast, the program could fail to detect hardware compression status reliably.
Volume capacity is determined by writing one large file until an error, interpereted as end-of-tape, is encountered. In the next phase,
about 100 files are written to fill the tape. This second phase will write less data, because each filemark consumes some tape. With a
little arithmetic, amtapetype calculates the size of these filemarks.
All sorts of things might happen to cause the amount of data written to vary enough to generate a strange file mark size guess. A little
more "shoe shining" because of the additional file marks (and flushes), dirt left on the heads from the first pass of a brand new tape, the
temperature/humidity changed during the multi-hour run, a different amount of data was written after the last file mark before EOT was
reported, etc.
Note that the file mark size might really be zero for whatever device this is, and it was just the measured capacity variation that caused
amtapetype to think those extra file marks in pass 2 actually took up space.
SEE ALSO
amanda(8), amanda.conf(5)
The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/
AUTHORS
Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com>
Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)
Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com>
Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)
Amanda 3.3.3 01/10/2013 AMTAPETYPE(8)