Tape Backup And Block Size

["Chris Hoover" <wax_man@bellsouth.net>]

Does anyone know how to find out what the proper block size is for a tape drive?  I have an Exabyte 8200 scsi tape drive (8mm 2.5 gig), that I bought used with no documentation.  I've looked at the exabyte home page, but did not see any mention of block size.

I've tried to backup with dump, but it is not getting the right block size.  This is causing it to tell me I need multiple tapes when everything should fit on one.

I've been working on this for a while, and haven't gotten it right yet.  And to make matters worse, I lost my 5.1 gig maxtor about 2 weeks ago w/o a good backup.  So I really want to get this figured out to prevent any more catastrophic data loss.

Thanks,

Chris



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