Re: taper tunning to achieve tape streaming

2001-12-14 Thread Mihai Lozoveanu
Mitch == Mitch Collinsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I'am using 20G for holding disk. I had two files produced by amdump each one 9G. The taper doesn't achieve streaming when write them to the tape (and the rate is around 4MB/s instead of 5.9MB/s which is nominal). I tried to

taper tunning to achieve tape streaming

2001-12-12 Thread Mihai Lozoveanu
Hi, Does anyone know how to modify the buffering ot the taper so that I can achive tape streaming. I'm using an dlt8000 tape on an enterprise e250 sun server. When write the same files to the tape using tar with blocking factor 126 or 256 the tape gets into full streaming. The tapebufs

strange amanda failure

2001-12-04 Thread Mihai Lozoveanu
Hi, Does anybody have any idea why I got this amanda failure: driver: adding holding disk 0 dir /mnt/SCSI4/am_hold size 12167192 reserving 12167192 out of 12167192 for degraded-mode dumps driver: start time