Guy Dallaire wrote:
Is 8kb enough for the filemark ? My last amdump reported en error writing filemark (But it ran fine for the past 2 months)
There's a misunderstanding. The filemark length is just calculated by amtapetype in order to estimate how much space your drive uses for writing a filemark. It can fluctuate wildly between 0 (for instance, drive technology which writes filemarks in an out-of-band track) and a few megabytes.
The error message that you got cited `writing filemark', but that's just amanda's way to tell you that writing hit EOT. The problem is not in the filemark itself.
If I change the filemark length, will I be able to read my previous tapes with amrestore/amrecover ?
Yes, definitely. amanda uses the filemark length only to estimate the remaining space; and given that it amounts to a minuscules proportion of the total tape length, whatever you put in there doesn't have any real influence on amanda's operation.
Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
