Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> Well, you have to be careful with LTO3.  You want to feed the tape at
> at least 1/2 native speed (native speed is rated to be 80MB/s). 
> Slower than that, and the drive will have to start and stop the tape
> frequently (aka shoe-shining), which is bad for both tapes and the
> drive (and capacity, for that matter).  This generally means actually
> putting some thought/$$ into the backup server's disk system.

Yep, I'm not having any problems there, I've got some SATA discs in RAID
0 for the dump drives, so they can blast out at 60+MB/sec.

> For amdump and friends, blocksize is set in the tapetype.  For
> amtapetype, you can set it on the command line.  'man amanda.conf' and
> 'man amtapetype' are your friends.

Cool, I'll look into that, I'm actually upgrading out backup server
today, so now's a good time to play with that. Thanks!

Graeme

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