Toralf Lund wrote:
> I've been meaning to ask about this for a long time:
> 
> Does anyone here use AIT2 tapes, a.k.a. SDX-50C, for Amanda backup? What
> tape length are you using?

I ran amtapetype on my AIT-2 and;

define tapetype AIT2 {
    comment "AIT-2 with 230m tapes"
    length 43778 mbytes
    filemark 3120 kbytes
    speed 5371 kps
}

This has proven pretty accurate.

> Please note that I'm not asking for the tapetype entry from the
> amanda.org archives, as it does not seem quite correct. I mean, the tape
> size is specified as 50Gb, and that's more or less what the "length"
> parameter in entry says, but it seems to me that it isn't actually
> possible to write that much data to these tapes. The maximum seems to be
> closer to 40Gb, actually.
> 
> OK, I might run amtapetype, but I'm lazy... And I'm also curious about
> other people's experience with this tapes. For instance, can anyone
> actually write as much as 50Gb?
> 
> - Toralf
> 


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