On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Peter Crighton wrote: >>>> I did read that and yes I understand it says don't use 512 byte >>>> blocks, but that is the only way that I've managed to get it to work.
http://www.arkeia.com/archives_indexed/2003/08/msg00167.html makes comments about the extreme slowness of the drives under Arkeia, so this isn't a unique problem. >>> Did you use a blank tape when you tested bacula for the first time? >> >> More importantly, was btape used? > > Yes (and before I'd waited for that to finish (I wanted to sleep and > can't with a tape drive running in the next room) cancelled it and > tried a Bacula backup with the same throughput) > >> IDE-based tape drives have always "difficult"... > > And of course I have an IDE drive... This is due to ide-scsi emulation. You really need to run btape and get solid answers. Have you thought about starting btape in the morning and lettng it run all day? Ideally you can ssh into the machine remotely... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
