On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 07:18:32PM -0500, Steven Osborn wrote:
> 
> I have a Dell Powervault 124T LTO-2 and I'm running amtapetype on it and it 
> is running incredibly slow.  It estimates 51 hours to check the tape.  I'm 
> new to amanda, but this seems absurdly slow to me.

I'll bet you did not give amtapetype an estimate of your tapes capacity,
the -e option.  Without that, it writes many, many very small files
which cause the drive to stop and restart at each EOF.

Abort the attempt and restart amtapetype.

For future reference, check the manufacturer's estimated writing speed
and calculate how long, at that speed, one complete pass should take.
amtapetype makes two complete passes during its run.  Thus the total
time should be 2-4 times what you calculated for 1 pass.

jl
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