Toralf Lund wrote: > I've been meaning to ask about this for a long time: > > Does anyone here use AIT2 tapes, a.k.a. SDX-50C, for Amanda backup? What > tape length are you using?
I ran amtapetype on my AIT-2 and; define tapetype AIT2 { comment "AIT-2 with 230m tapes" length 43778 mbytes filemark 3120 kbytes speed 5371 kps } This has proven pretty accurate. > Please note that I'm not asking for the tapetype entry from the > amanda.org archives, as it does not seem quite correct. I mean, the tape > size is specified as 50Gb, and that's more or less what the "length" > parameter in entry says, but it seems to me that it isn't actually > possible to write that much data to these tapes. The maximum seems to be > closer to 40Gb, actually. > > OK, I might run amtapetype, but I'm lazy... And I'm also curious about > other people's experience with this tapes. For instance, can anyone > actually write as much as 50Gb? > > - Toralf > -- Stephen Carville -- polluting the ranks of skeptics since 1995. --------------------------------------------------------------- Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. -- H. L. Mencken