On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:15:25PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell enlightened us: > > I have a Dell Powervault 124T LTO-2 and I'm running amtapetype on it > > and it is running incredibly slow. It estimates 51 hours to check the > > tape. I'm new to amanda, but this seems absurdly slow to me. > > I don't know the details of your tape device, but keep in mind that > amtapetype does things that are not usual for a tape device, and that > for enormous tapes, it can, indeed, take a while. >
Especially if you don't give it an estimate size (-e, IIRC). It should take 2xlength of time to fill one tape, which for LTO2 is around an hour, I believe. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
