On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:15:25PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell enlightened us:
> >    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.
> 

Especially if you don't give it an estimate size (-e, IIRC). It should take
2xlength of time to fill one tape, which for LTO2 is around an hour, I
believe.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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