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)

tapebufs 200
# A positive integer telling taper how many 32k buffers to allocate.
# WARNING! If this is set too high, taper will not be able to allocate
# the memory and will die.  The default is 20 (640k).

/Andreas