On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:
> "Brian J. Murrell" wrote:
> [...]
> > So why not stop writing before getting the EOT? If Amanda stops writing
> > after the last full block before the expected physical EOT (or sooner if
> > you want) and resumes on the next tape, is that problem no longer a
> > problem?
> >
> > What am I missing?
>
> How do you know the exact EOT when using hardware compression?
You don't. That's why it's preferrable to use Amanda's software
compression, instead. Since this way the chunks are already compressed,
amanda knows exactly what size they will be on tape and can plan much
better.
When I play games with my own offsite backup extractor/packer and
amflush, I regularly achieve 99.9% tape utilitization using my
standard tapetype. I haven't had one hit EOT, yet. I don't use
hardware compression.
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