On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 07:18:32PM -0500, Steven Osborn wrote:
>    I have a Dell Powervault 124T LTO-2 and I'm running amtapetype on it
>    and it is running incredibly slow.  It estimates 51 hours to check the
>    tape.  I'm new to amanda, but this seems absurdly slow to me.

I don't know the details of your tape device, but keep in mind that
amtapetype does things that are not usual for a tape device, and that
for enormous tapes, it can, indeed, take a while.

Dustin

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        Dustin J. Mitchell
        Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
        http://www.zmanda.com/