On 2006-04-06 16:42, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote:

2006/4/6, marcio AT fcfar.unesp DOT br <marcio AT fcfar.unesp DOT br>:

  I´ve a Sony AIT-1 i100/S tape installed in a FreeBSD 6.0 machine and I want
to use amanda. What´s the tapetype that I must to use and/ou other trips?

You can use amtapetype.   It took me about 2 days to get the results,
but it works and it is the only way to be sure.

It works much faster (4-5 hours)when you had specified a
realistic estimate:

  amtapetape -e 35g ...

man amtapetype

Maybe not very clear on first reading, but now that you
experienced what "slow" means, you probably understand:

   ...  The -e flag is there to  keep  the  number  of  file
   marks  down  because  they  can  be slow (since they force the
   drive to flush all its buffers to physical media).


And using the web is even faster:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions
  (item 6)




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