On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:23:19AM -0800, Dan Rich wrote: > I have a DLT IV drive that I cannot get to stream with amanda. With a > little bit of experimentation, I have found that it will stream with tar if > I set the block size to 128KB. However, amanda only seems to support block > sizes of 32kb. The constant rewind/seek motion of the tape is rough on > both the tape and the hardware (not to mention my ears if I'm still up when > the backups kick off). > > I seem to remember once upon a time that someone posted a patch that would > allow amanda to run with larger block sizes. However, now that yahoo > deletes older postings I can't find it in the archives any more. > > Does anyone have a fix for this? Any ideas if changing this is even going > to work on FreeBSD? (my original testing was on my old Linux server)
It is not a patch, its a feature. But it must be specified at configure time, then compiled. Check the amanda man page for "blocksize". -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
