Hello,
I have a sony dds3 tape drive that is currently in use with amanda,
running on an intel based redhat 7.0 platform. I have the following
variables set in my amanda.conf file:
dumpcycle 2 weeks
runspercycle 14
tapecycle 29 tapes
bumpsize 20 Mb
I have not figured out how to turn off hardware compression, nor am I
too worried about it except as an intellectual exercise. I would like
to run my tapetype declaration by you guys to see if I could be tweaking
it a bit more.
If I interpret correctly the documentation, the tapetype declaration is
designed to give amanda a rough idea of the tape's capacity.
at first, I had the length variable set to "12288 mbytes" as listed in a
tapetype value listed on the faq-o-matic. I noticed though that amanda
would only backup that much data. I then modified it to "24576 mbytes",
the ideal compression.
I have finalized on "18432 mbytes" because that seems to be a reasonable
amount of data to expect to go on one tape. My question: is this the
appropriate use of "tapetype", or should I be modifying a different
variable?
thanks for your time...
--jason
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