On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:04:53AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 at 4:14pm, Alexander Jolk wrote
> 
> >Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> >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?
> 
> Amanda will happily restore older tapes -- amrestore can determine the 
> blocksize itself and/or you can specify it on the command line.  And 
> I'm fairly certain it'll overwrite recycyled tapes, but that's easily 
> tested.

I'm on really shakey ground here, but doesn't the tape have to be
relabeled to get the tape header set to the new block size?

Or maybe it can be read at the 32K size, and when rewritten by
taper becomes the new size automagically.

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