Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > Well, you have to be careful with LTO3. You want to feed the tape at > at least 1/2 native speed (native speed is rated to be 80MB/s). > Slower than that, and the drive will have to start and stop the tape > frequently (aka shoe-shining), which is bad for both tapes and the > drive (and capacity, for that matter). This generally means actually > putting some thought/$$ into the backup server's disk system.
Yep, I'm not having any problems there, I've got some SATA discs in RAID 0 for the dump drives, so they can blast out at 60+MB/sec. > For amdump and friends, blocksize is set in the tapetype. For > amtapetype, you can set it on the command line. 'man amanda.conf' and > 'man amtapetype' are your friends. Cool, I'll look into that, I'm actually upgrading out backup server today, so now's a good time to play with that. Thanks! Graeme -- Graeme Humphries ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (306) 955-7075 ext. 485 My views are not the views of my employers.
