Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:46:46 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Damian Sobieralski <dsobiera@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: tape record bigger than supplied buffer Message-ID: <42AF1806.8000604@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <42AEB46B.9050205@dial.pipex.com> References: <20050613234529.42333.qmail@web50403.mail.yahoo.com> <42AEB46B.9050205@dial.pipex.com>
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Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Damian Sobieralski wrote: >> I added the following to my tape drive area in the bacula-sd-conf: >> >> Minimum Block Size = 64512 >> Maximum Block Size = 64512 >> >> I'm not seeing those errors any longer. I've restored and all seems >> to go well. > > Good stuff! Did that number come out of your tape drive manual, in the > end? Just wondering why 64512 rather than 65536... It's 63K. I've seen recommendations elsewhere to use a tape blocksize of 63K rather than 64K if hardware compression is enabled, because sometimes the data doesn't have a positive compression ratio... -- -Chuck
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