It would seem that we have some kind of conflict with hardware and software compression. If both are on, the backups can not be restored. I have managed to turn off software compression and that seems to cure the problem but would prefer to do software and not hardware.
I have tried turning off compression using 'mt -f tape setdensity 0x15', which seems to work but doesn't stick, the next time amanda writes to the drive it has gone back to 0x8c. This system is on RH6.2 on SPARC, is there anyway of permanently turning off compression on the Exb8500 ? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Glen and Rosanne Eustace, GodZone Internet Services, a division of AGRE Enterprises Ltd., P.O. Box 8020, Palmerston North, New Zealand 5301 Ph/Fax: +64 6 357 8168, Mob: +64 21 424 015
