On 21/08/12 13:00, lst_hoe02 AT kwsoft DOT de wrote:

> Of course but the manual as far as i understand explicitely discourage
> altering the value for Block Size with modern hardware: "On most
> modern tape drives, you will not need to specify this directive.."

That's on the basis that 64k is universal. Some older drives can't even 
handle blocks this big.

> With this in mind i really wonder how many Bacula installations setup
> the last 5 years are running with shoe-shining tape drives despite the
> fact that Bacula can do better.

Not very many. The vast majority of bacula installations use disk 
volumes, not tape - which is why debugging tape problems can take so long.





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