Re: DLT tape streaming and amanda blocksize

2005-01-14 Thread Dan Rich
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Jon, on Freitag, 14. Jänner 2005 at 20:44 you wrote to amanda-users: JL> It is not a patch, its a feature. JL> But it must be specified at configure time, then compiled. JL> Check the amanda man page for "blocksize". To be precise, please check the latest version of

Re: DLT tape streaming and amanda blocksize

2005-01-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Jon, on Freitag, 14. Jänner 2005 at 20:44 you wrote to amanda-users: JL> It is not a patch, its a feature. JL> But it must be specified at configure time, then compiled. JL> Check the amanda man page for "blocksize". To be precise, please check the latest version of the amanda.8-manpage at

Re: DLT tape streaming and amanda blocksize

2005-01-14 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
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 ta

Re: DLT tape streaming and amanda blocksize

2005-01-14 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 11:23 -0800, Dan Rich wrote: > I have a DLT IV drive that I cannot get to stream with amanda. I ran into the same problem. I solved it (inelegantly, but solved with no source code futzing) by running the backup with no tape in the drive, then later running amflush when the

Re: DLT tape streaming and amanda blocksize

2005-01-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
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 o

DLT tape streaming and amanda blocksize

2005-01-14 Thread Dan Rich
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 b