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KewlEugene
May 9th, 2009, 02:25 AM
i use these mt / tar options to archive 100's of GBs of raw/jpg profesional digital camera images onto 200GB LTO2 tapes using ubuntu 8.10.

mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 65536
# 65536 that's the max for mt as distributed in the mt-st package

tar cvpbf 128 /dev/nst0 NikonD3Images

is the above optimal, i.e. does it fit as much data onto the tape as possible ?

thanks