I am using a Tandberg Data 1x7 Magnum LTO4 Autoloader. When I use gnutar with a
block size of 2048 (tar -b 4096) I can back up a 2.6 gig iso file in 37
seconds. When I use amanda, the same file takes 4 minutes. I used the following
configure line when I compiled my amanda installation.
/downloads/amandasource/amanda-2.6.0p1/configure --with-maxtapeblocksize=2048
--with-user=amandabackup --with-group=disk --with-configdir=/etc/amanda
I then added the blocksize line to my amanda.conf
define tapetype LTO4 {
comment "LTO4 Library"
length 802816 mbytes
blocksize 2048 kbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
It still takes 4 minutes.
How do I know if the maxtapeblocksize parameter is active. Is there a log file
that will tell me what block size the job was backed up with?
