How to restore from tapes, if you get “Invalid block size”

Greetings from Veeam Support and welcome to the next episode of our troubleshooting series!

In this article, we will review how to resolve an issue that might be caused by a mismatch between the block size set in your Veeam tape drive properties and the one actually supported by the tape device itself. You will learn why block size can be different and how to fix it.

And even if you’ve never come across such a problem, you may also find this post useful, as under certain circumstances changing the block size can help you increase the processing rate. This is because when you have a higher block size, the drive is supposed to write data more quickly.

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Kira Podlesnaja
Kira Podlesnaja

Former Technical Support Engineer