Thanks!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Bijnens" <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
To: "Rohit" <rohit AT genetechindia DOT com>; "AMANDA Users"
<amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: more doubts


> Rohit wrote:
>
> > Btw, how do I get these details for my tape? What I use is
> > HP-DAT DDS3 (C5708A) 12/24 GB tape.
>
> Take a blank tape, and run:
>
> amtapetype -e 12g -f /dev/YourTapeDevice
>
> This takes about 4-5 hours to run.
>
> Or, your could use a good conservative approximation like:
>
> define tapetype DDS3 {
>      comment "DDS3 tape drives"
>      length 11500 mbytes
>      filemark 111 kbytes
>      speed 2500 kbytes
> }
>
> Running "amtapetype" yourself at least once is good to check
> the rest of the values and if they make sense.  E.g. a very low
> speed (compared to what the manufacturer specifies) is a possible
> hint that your server is not fast enough.  It also detects
> if you have hardware compression enabled.
>
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