Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-23 07:38:07
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB
From: Alan Brown <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk>
To: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:22:32 +0100
On 19/04/12 23:11, John Drescher wrote:

> Now I think I remember. If I change the block size all tapes with the
> previous block size will be not writable since they were previously
> written with the smaller block sizes and you can not change fixed
> block sizes on a tape that contains data. So my problem is I would
> have to erase (rewind / weof) each tape to allow writing after the
> change. With 120 tapes this will be a serious pain. If I ever get time
> I will have to investigate this..

When you recycle tapes they get relabelled. At that point the larger 
block size will be used automatically.

It works for me.




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