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Re: Ultrium tapetype

2006-03-15 10:24:00
Subject: Re: Ultrium tapetype
From: Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>
To: Alexander Jolk <alexj AT buf DOT com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:20:10 -0600
Alexander Jolk wrote:

> When changing the blocksize, will amanda happily read (restore) older
> tapes written with a different blocksize, or will I have to recover
> them manually?  Will she correctly overwrite recycled tapes with the
> new blocksize?

I believe the blocksize just affects how much data is read/written at
once to/from the tape, it doesn't affect the actual data at all.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong? :)

Graeme

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