Amanda-Users

Re: tapetape (not in faq-o-matic)

2006-05-23 17:48:03
Subject: Re: tapetape (not in faq-o-matic)
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:40:02 -0400
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:22:02PM -0700, Pavel Pragin wrote:
> Brian Cuttler wrote:
> 
> >Does anyone have the tape type for the LTO3 (Quantum) ?
> >
> >Are there any other parameters I should tweak to get better
> >performance/utilization ?
> >
> >This is still a reasonable default ?
> >
> >tapebufs 20
> >
> >I am running the StorEdge C2 jukebox with lto3 drive on a SunFire 280R
> >under Solaris 9 with 4 gig of memory.
> >
> >
> Try using this command to determine tapetype:
> amtapetype -f /dev/nst0   (/dev/nst0) will be diff for solaris i think
> 

A tapetype run on an lto-3 drive without a good estimate option
might take about 14 days to complete :(

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