On 9 Apr 2002 at 12:56pm, klavs klavsen wrote

> I've tried to run
> 
> tapetype -e 40G -t /dev/tape 
> 
> it never stops.. just keeps writing to tape..(wrote 917490 32Kb blocks
> in 70 files) and increasing.. how long is it suppose to run?

Until it writes two tapes worth of data.  You're at ~28GB there.  
Patience... ;)

You don't mention which version of amanda you got tapetype from, but the 
one in 2.4.2p2 is *much* faster than the one in 2.4.1.  Also make sure 
that you do *not* have hardware compression turned on for your drive.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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