From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 14 17:44:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4144516A41C for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:44:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D83A43D1F for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:44:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F02FC5DEB; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:44:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 97230-01; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:44:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-69-6.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.69.6]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC0D05CB2; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:44:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42AF1806.8000604@mac.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:46:46 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Zbyslaw References: <20050613234529.42333.qmail@web50403.mail.yahoo.com> <42AEB46B.9050205@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <42AEB46B.9050205@dial.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Damian Sobieralski Subject: Re: tape record bigger than supplied buffer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:44:47 -0000 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