On Wed March 12 2003 14:12, Brian Cuttler wrote: >I realize this isn't the correct forum, but as long as >your are already on the subject I'm hoping you will not >mind too much.
I'd guess thats since it has to do with tape, it should come under our umbrella. >I have one system, just one, that I do not run amanda on >but perform backups of. Its a Redhat Linux rel 7.2, code >name Inigma, kernel 2.4.9.3-1, with a DLT 8000 drive. We >are running out of tape during our nightly dump and can't >seem to figure out the correct drive parameters to either >use better blocking or turn on compression. > >Yes, I've been following this discussion but we haven't >been successful. > >Current command is > ># dump 0udsf 49125 67854 /dev/nst0 /iarcvol >(I'm not primary on that system, I'm not really sure where > these values originated but have been involved in testing > tweeking them). Hoo boy, a dump user. Ok all you dump experts, jump right in. :-) Me, I'm a tar user, so I have no idea what all those options might mean. >Only about 18 of the 25 gig make it to tape and a DLT8000 >should have sufficient capacity to dump all the date with >room to spare. > > thanks, > > Brian > >> Gene Heskett wrote: [and snipped] -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly