Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-27 21:40:41
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)
From: Stephen Thompson <stephen AT seismo.berkeley DOT edu>
To: Alan Brown <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:38:43 -0700

On 9/27/12 6:17 PM, Alan Brown wrote:
> On 27/09/12 22:25, Stephen Thompson wrote:
>>> What happens if you mark the volumes as "append" and put them back in
>>> the library?
>>
>>
>>
>> I haven't had a lot of time to look into this today, but I do this
>> quick test and it immediately marks the volume Full again.
>
>
> Then it really is full and the rest is down to overheads.
>
> Consider using larger block sizes.
>
>
>

Aren't these considered reasonable settings for LTO3?

   Maximum block size = 262144           # 256kb
   Maximum File Size = 2gb



thanks for the help!
Stephen
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