2006/4/6, Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2006-04-06 16:42, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: > > You can use amtapetype. It took me about 2 days to get the results, > > but it works and it is the only way to be sure. > > It works much faster (4-5 hours)when you had specified a > realistic estimate: > > amtapetape -e 35g ... > > ... The -e flag is there to keep the number of file > marks down because they can be slow (since they force the > drive to flush all its buffers to physical media).
Thanks for the explanation. I will use the -e flag when I have to run it again. > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions I looked it up previously. amtapetype gave me slightly different numbers. The tape size is shorter according to amtapetype. -- Enrico Indiogine Parasol Laboratory Texas A&M University [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 979-845-3937
