On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Montagni, Giovanni wrote:
> I have a problem with amanda "speed".
> I have an lto drive with 100gb tape. To fill that tape amanda take more
> time than necessary, because it takes about 8 hours.
> LTO speed is ~10 Mb/s, so i expect that the tape is filled up in about 3
> hours.
> I also have another lto drive, on a windows machine and it takes 3 hour
> to fill tapes.
> 
> What parameters i have to set-up to speed up amanda?
> Does the presence of the holding disk influence performance?

You should use a holding disk to keep the tape drive at full streaming speed.

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