On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 at 8:00am, Kevin Alford wrote

> I need some help.  I am running Amanda 2.4.2p2 on AIX 5.2 ML6.  I have a
> Quantum ATL SuperLoader tape library with a DLT1 drive.

Why such an old version?  There are lots of nifty features in more recent 
ones.

> It holds 15 tapes with another slot for my cleaning tape.  I would like
> to setup Amanda to automatically label my tapes, so that I can have a
> totally lights out backup environment.  I have not been able to install

You only need to label tapes once.  So automating it isn't really all that 
great a need.

> mtx on AIX 5.2.  Below is what my Amanda.conf looks like regarding my
> tape device.
> 
> define tapetype SuperDLT1 {
> 
>     comment "Quantum SuperDLT1"
> 
>     length 96868 mbytes
> 
>     filemark 8 kbytes           # don't know a better value
> 
>     speed 9142 kbytes           # dito
> 
> }

AFAIK amanda doesn't use either filemark or speed, so don't worry about 
them too much.  The length seems a bit low, though -- isn't SDLT 110GB 
native?  That should translate to ~104000 MiB.  Did you run tapetype 
yourself or grab that from somewhere?  If the former, make sure you have 
hardware compression disabled.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University