Gene Heskett writes:
>>> 5) rerun the tapetype and get the true capacity of the tape so
>>> you can update that entry in your amanda.conf. It should go up
>>> a bit because tapetype uses /dev/urandom as the data source for
>>> its test writes, and the data from /dev/urandom is so random
>>> that it overpowers the hardware compression and actually grows
>>> to be larger on the tape than what tapetype seems to think it
>>> is.
>>>
Here is the newly generated conf generated by tapetype program:
define tapetype unknown-tapetype {
comment "just produced by tapetype program"
length 3916 mbytes
filemark 174 kbytes
speed 446 kps
}
Previously, it was:
define tapetype C1533A_120 {
comment "HP C1533A DDS2 with 120m tapes"
length 3858 mbytes
filemark 107 kbytes
speed 507 kbytes
}
On the box of my tape, it says there 8 gig compressed. How will I be able to
achieve this? Are my new values fine or should the digit appear as near 8
gigs in value?
I don't know if this link will help. This is the exact tape that I have
right now. http://www.cmm.bg/h-p/doc/70/c5707a.htm
Thanks again.
Neil
