On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:11:49 +1200 Craig Miskell <craig.misk...@opus.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi, > It looks like I need to beef up "Maximum Block Size" to get good > performance out of our LTO-4 tape drives. > > Before I do, I'd like to know what effect this has on restoring from backups > taken with the default block size. Will I > need to modify the Device configuration back to it's default setting to be > able to restore from those tapes, or will > Bacula figure out what it needs to do? > I believe it is the former. I did same thing (upped 'Maximum Block Size" for LTO-4 performance) but didn't test any restores from the tapes written with the old block size. And eventually they were recycled. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@genomics.upenn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
