Hi Paul,
no, no. 32 Kbytes of course not 32 bytes.
I am using a Compaq 40/80 DLT drive
and as far as I can remember I had to do this setting to get the whole
thing working.
Kind regards
Sandra Krumme
| Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
11.01.2005 14:14
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| S.Krumme AT stadt-duisburg DOT de
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Kopie
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Thema
| Re: Incredible slow write
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S.Krumme AT stadt-duisburg DOT de wrote:
>
> after moving my backup hard- and software to another machine, I
> encountered several problems. One was due to faulty tapes, the other
due
> to the fact that I didn´t knew the blocksize I set the tape device
on
> the old machine.
> These problems I had resolved by using fresh tapes and by setting
the
> default block size of the tape device to 32, which was the original
> setting.
blocksize of 32 bytes? Or do you mean 32 Kbytes?
>
> Now my backup is up an running again. But when I start amdump, the
> filesystems are dumped quickly as usual, but when the taper starts
> writing it takes extremly long.
> Here is an example:
>
> 10.0.1.5:/
1 55424k writing to tape (12:20:40)
>
> Now its 13:42 and it is still writing.
>
> Any idea whats wrong now ?
If the blocksize if 32 bytes, then, yes, that is incredebly slow.
Personally, I prefer the variable block tape device (by setting default
blocksize to zero), and specify the blocksize I need using the programs
(32Kbyte by default for amanda, or "dd bs=..." etc.)
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