On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:23:19AM -0800, Dan Rich wrote:
> I have a DLT IV drive that I cannot get to stream with amanda.  With a 
> little bit of experimentation, I have found that it will stream with tar if 
> I set the block size to 128KB.  However, amanda only seems to support block 
> sizes of 32kb.  The constant rewind/seek motion of the tape is rough on 
> both the tape and the hardware (not to mention my ears if I'm still up when 
> the backups kick off).
> 
> I seem to remember once upon a time that someone posted a patch that would 
> allow amanda to run with larger block sizes.  However, now that yahoo 
> deletes older postings I can't find it in the archives any more.
> 
> Does anyone have a fix for this?  Any ideas if changing this is even going 
> to work on FreeBSD?  (my original testing was on my old Linux server)

It is not a patch, its a feature.

But it must be specified at configure time, then compiled.
Check the amanda man page for "blocksize".

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