Hi,
After replacing drive and bought new tapes, the backup using tar succeed
ok,
the btape test also succeeded ok.
but when I use btape fill test it stops after 20GB claiming end of tape,
this is the error/message
Wrote block=30, file,blk=20,5499 VolBytes=19,353,535,488 rate=18.53
Paul Elliott wrote (2015/12/02):
> I would be interested to hear what block sizes other LTO5/6 users are
> using?
LTO-5/SAS on FreeBSD: I still use Maximum Block Size = 65536, because
333 MB/s transfer rate is sufficient for me. I have tried this small
script
---
#!/bin/sh
B=131072
C=32768
whil
Dan Langille wrote (2015/12/02):
> I had not considered that. In my case, I backup to local HDD (ZFS array)
> for long term storage. Right after those jobs finish, I copy to tape.
> Sounds like I need to implement spooling now. Fortunately, my full
> backups are only about 400GB. I think I can get
>> I was wondering if you all might be able to give me thoughts on something we
>> are
>> looking at implementing. We have a windows file server which we currently
>> backup using bacula.
>> This runs completely without issue and is generally rock solid. We are
>> however
>> going to be hitting
