Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 07:12:36 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: Val <val@hcol.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP Colorado T4000 Tape and tape backup in general Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.980328070637.296A-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980327115505.28108A-100000@ns.hcol.net>
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On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Val wrote:
> > > I had a tape backup sitting next to the computer for a while now.
> > > It is detected on the scsi bus on the startup.
> > > I wasn't using it much because the tar command would take forever to
> > > backup about 2Gb of data, and after about 6-7hours would give some error
> > > message.
> >
> > Which error message?
> Well, i am waiting for it right now(as I said takes forever),
I can't really advise about the error code you report, however the T4000
is a streaming drive and you may find that using a larger blocking factor
helps - the default is 20 IIRC (10kB); I'd suggest start experimenting
with a blocking factor of 64 (32kB; which is what I use with dump on my
T4000).
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