[CentOS] Tape backup question.

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
>               mode1 blocksize=512 compression=1
>               mode2 blocksize=1024 compression=1

Never tested it in Linux, but I've always found it better with new fast tape 
devices to use larger blocksizes, or variable size. Have you benchmarked the 
speed with blocksize=0 (variable) or 10K or 20K?

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