Paolo Borsa wrote:
>
> i am new to this list and i just finished tapetype on an hp dat40x6
> here is the result :
>
> define tapetype SureStore-DAT40x6 {
> comment "HP SureStore DAT 40x6 autoloader"
> length 17004 mbytes
> filemark 399 kbytes
> speed 1584 kps
> }
That length is suspiciously close to what you get when you have hardware
compression on. I would expect something around 19000 mbytes.
Are you sure hardware compression is off?
The normal use of Amanda is to use software compression and no hardware
compression; that way Amanda can make better plans to utilise the tape
capacity. A reason to use hardware compression is reducing the load
on the servers during backup. Never use both hard- and software
compression.
Using amanda with software compression and writing it on a tape
with hardware compression on, results in a smaller tape; when you
don't want to use software compression, then you may increase the
tapelength, depending on the type of files you plan to back up.
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