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Re: What does your DLT IIIXT and DLT4 tapetype look like
2005-09-06 09:04:52
Guy Dallaire wrote:
Is 8kb enough for the filemark ? My last amdump reported en error
writing filemark (But it ran fine for the past 2 months)
There's a misunderstanding. The filemark length is just calculated by
amtapetype in order to estimate how much space your drive uses for
writing a filemark. It can fluctuate wildly between 0 (for instance,
drive technology which writes filemarks in an out-of-band track) and a
few megabytes.
The error message that you got cited `writing filemark', but that's just
amanda's way to tell you that writing hit EOT. The problem is not in
the filemark itself.
If I change the filemark length, will I be able to read my previous
tapes with amrestore/amrecover ?
Yes, definitely. amanda uses the filemark length only to estimate the
remaining space; and given that it amounts to a minuscules proportion of
the total tape length, whatever you put in there doesn't have any real
influence on amanda's operation.
Alex
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