We have not made any changes to block size and the defaults are:

Solaris Networker host block size of 192KB
Windows storage node block size of 128KB

Any suggestions?

-Teresa



-----Original Message-----
From: Jose Quinteiro [mailto:jquintei AT legato DOT com] 
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 10:39 AM
To: Legato NetWorker discussion; Teresa Biehler
Subject: Re: [Networker] setting block size

Block size is set automagically by Networker based on device type.  As 
long as the devices are configured to be the same type, the block size 
should be the same regardless of platform.

The environment variables are used to override Networker's defaults. 
The defaults should be fine.

Saludos,
Jose.

Teresa Biehler wrote:
> I've got a Solaris Networker server and I'm trying to set up a Windows
> storage node that will share the same tape library.  So, I want the
each
> system to be able to read/write tapes written by the other.  Based on
> running scanner -v on tapes written by both hosts, I've determined
that
> I need to set the block size to 128KB.  So, how do I do this?  In the
> admin guide is says to set the environment variable
> NSR_DEV_BLOCK_SIZE_DEVICE_NAME.  Where/how do I do this (for both
> Solaris and Windows)?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Teresa
> 
> 
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