Hallo Wolfgang,
> Hi Martin & rest!
>
> Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> > if AMANDA is something like a high end backup tool then it's
>
> It is. Even higher that ARKEIRA AFAIK.
>
> > Hint 1: Autoloading of modules may be a drawback in
> > this scenario because ftape falls back to it's default
> > everytime it's loaded again.
>
> However, you can specify the defaults in /ect/conf.modules.
> See man modprobe.
Yes, but how do you set ftape's block size with
/etc/conf.modules? I did not find an appropriate command line
option of ftape.
>
> > Hint 2: High End backup software (designed to use SCSI tape
> > drives) often do not offer a verify run because
> > SCSI tape drives do Read-After-Write-Verification. Floppy
> > tape drives do not have this feature.
>
> Which does not help if the data that arrives at the tape drive
> is already mangled ... there should always be a way to test
> whether the data is up-to-date with the HD. IMHO.
Correct, the above is not my opinion.
> ...
> -Wolfgang
> ...
Martin
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