Hello...

I compiled amanda with --with-maxtapeblocksize=512 to speed up my LTO-4
tape drives. amfetchdump breaks with "Cannot allocate memory":

shell> amfetchdump -a ...

The following tapes are needed: 000031L4
amfetchdump: error reading file header: Cannot allocate memory
Not an amanda tape
Looking for tape 000031L4...
amfetchdump: slot 31: date 20070821082505 label 000031L4 (exact label
match)
amfetchdump: error reading file header: Cannot allocate memory
Not an amanda tape
Insert tape labeled 000031L4 in device /dev/nst0
and press enter, ^D to finish reading tapes

in amanda.conf: tapetype I have:
blocksize 256

from "man amfetchdump"
-b blocksize
Force a particular block size when reading from tapes. This value
will usually be autodetected, and should not normally need to be
set.

The autodetect part does not seem to work ( at least for me). To get it
to work, I had to do:

amfetchdump -b 256k -a ...

bug? or by design?

--
Christopher McCrory
"The guy that keeps the servers running"

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