My OperaAmanda tapetype
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:53:08 AM
I wanted to verify what tape type should I use for my Amanda backup config file.
I have logged in as amandabackup user and used amtapetype command:
The following output was generated after very long time (~5 hours):
Therefore my tapetype for LTO2 drive (Quantum) is:
I have logged in as amandabackup user and used amtapetype command:
/usr/sbin/amtapetype -o -e 200g -f /dev/tape
The following output was generated after very long time (~5 hours):
Writing 2048 Mbyte compresseable data: 33 sec
Writing 2048 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 87 sec
WARNING: Tape drive has hardware compression enabled
Estimated time to write 2 * 204800 Mbyte: 17400 sec = 4 h 50 min
wrote 1572864 32Kb blocks in 24 files
wrote 6356992 32Kb blocks in 97 files in 8397 seconds (No space left on device)
wrote 6356992 32Kb blocks in 194 files in 8409 seconds (No space left on device)
define tapetype unknown-tapetype {
comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression on)"
length 198656 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 24208 kps
}
Therefore my tapetype for LTO2 drive (Quantum) is:
define tapetype LTO2 {
comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression on)"
length 198656 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 24208 kps
}
