On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:11:49 +1200
Craig Miskell <craig.miskell AT opus.co DOT nz> wrote:

> Hi,
>       It looks like I need to beef up "Maximum Block Size" to get good 
> performance out of our LTO-4 tape drives.
> 
> Before I do, I'd like to know what effect this has on restoring from backups 
> taken with the default block size.  Will I 
> need to modify the Device configuration back to it's default setting to be 
> able to restore from those tapes, or will 
> Bacula figure out what it needs to do?
> 

I believe it is the former.

I did same thing (upped 'Maximum Block Size" for LTO-4 performance) but
didn't test any restores from the tapes written with the old block
size.  And eventually they were recycled.

Regards,
-- 
Alex Chekholko   chekh AT genomics.upenn DOT edu

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