Re: [Bacula-users] New tape drive

2020-03-14 Thread kern
Date: 3/13/20 15:55 (GMT+01:00) To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] New tape drive Does anyone have recommendations for MAXIMUM BLOCK SIZE for a LTO-7 tape drive (HP).  We are currently using 2M on the LTO-5 with success (and it seemed to improve the speed).  I

Re: [Bacula-users] New tape drive

2020-03-13 Thread Alan Brown
On 13/03/2020 14:51, Steven Hammond wrote: > Does anyone have recommendations for MAXIMUM BLOCK SIZE for a LTO-7 > tape drive (HP).  We are currently using 2M on the LTO-5 with success > (and it seemed to improve the speed).  I didn't know if there was a > better setting for the LTO-7 (e.g., 4M) th

Re: [Bacula-users] New tape drive

2020-03-13 Thread Steven Hammond
Does anyone have recommendations for MAXIMUM BLOCK SIZE for a LTO-7 tape drive (HP).  We are currently using 2M on the LTO-5 with success (and it seemed to improve the speed).  I didn't know if there was a better setting for the LTO-7 (e.g., 4M) that should be used.  Any suggestions? Steven Ha

Re: [Bacula-users] New tape drive

2020-03-10 Thread Steven Hammond
Ok, I didn't know if it was being stored internally in the database for the tapes (e.g., tape volume Daily-1 was associated in the catalog with storage device LTO-5).  Thanks. Steven Hammond On 3/10/2020 12:38 PM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: On 11/03/2020 02:26, Steven Hammond wrote: We are curren

Re: [Bacula-users] New tape drive

2020-03-10 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On 11/03/2020 02:26, Steven Hammond wrote: We are currently using a LTO-5 drive.  We are upgrading to a LTO-7 drive.  I noticed the directive in our pools STORAGE=LTO-5. I'd like the existing pools to use LTO-7 (since it can still read LTO-5 tapes).  Can I just change the directive in the pool