Christoffer Dahl Petersen wrote:

Would the tapetype in amanda conf for a HP storageworks dat 72i be the same as: http://amanda.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/fom?_highlightWords=hp%2072&file=403

Yes.  (Disclaimer: I don't own one, nor did I see one ever in my life.)

To prove it, insert a scratch tape, and run the command:

   amtapetype -e 35G -f /dev/yourtapedev

I expect it takes about 6 hours to run the above command.
You get the benefit to test at the same time if you really have hardware
compression disabled on the drive.

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