amtapetype gave me :
length 386048 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 67753 kps
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 at 8:20pm, Jason Castonguay wrote
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 at 4:06pm, Jason Castonguay wrote
define tapetype Ultrium3 {
length 414386 mbytes
filemark 1889 kbytes
speed 10881 kps
}
Not that it's used by amanda for anything, but your speed seems
awfully slow. I don't know if that's a symptom of amtapetype or not
(LTO3 drives are fast compared to *hard drives*, never mind your
standard tape drive), but to get my LTO3 drives to run anywhere near
their rated speeds I had to use a blocksize > than amanda's default
32K. To do *that*, you'll need to use the --with-maxtapeblocksize
flag at configure time. I'm using 2M blocks.
hmm... well, using the -b 2M flags.
length: 404488 mbytes
filemark 266 kbytes
speed 10793 kps
Should I play with this more? I'm not sure what else to do to get
more speed out of it.
It may be a symptom of amtapetype then. Try testing with tar and
varying the block size.
