Btw, how do I get these details for my tape? What I use is HP-DAT DDS3 (C5708A) 12/24 GB tape.
Take a blank tape, and run:
amtapetype -e 12g -f /dev/YourTapeDevice
This takes about 4-5 hours to run.
Or, your could use a good conservative approximation like:
define tapetype DDS3 {
comment "DDS3 tape drives"
length 11500 mbytes
filemark 111 kbytes
speed 2500 kbytes
}Running "amtapetype" yourself at least once is good to check the rest of the values and if they make sense. E.g. a very low speed (compared to what the manufacturer specifies) is a possible hint that your server is not fast enough. It also detects if you have hardware compression enabled.
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