writing to tapes

[Jason D. Justman]

speaking of which, does anyone know of a good application which will
support incremental backups?  taper says it supports it, but for some
reason says it limits the archives to 2gig.

jason

Mark Szidik wrote:

> I am interested in maximizing throughput to tape.  Using dd or
> tar I can adjust the size of blocks to to write to the tape, but
> what is the optimum block size for a DDS tape?  Is it different
> for DDS, DDS2, DD3 and DDS4?  I can't imagine that the disk's 512
> Byte block size is the best size to write the the tape.
>
> Anybody got ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Szidik
>
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