I've been told (I'm sure on this list) that generally hardware compression is better than software compression. I throw that out for whatever it is worth.
Paul (It would be great to get ~47G on a tape. I get about ~14G, being a different--DDS3--type tape, of course.) ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom-- > > > Here's what I'm using with my AIT-2 drive: > > define tapetype AIT-2 { > > comment "SDX-500C" > > length 46700 mbytes # This is a safer uncompressed length > > filemark 1541 kbytes > > speed 2920 kps # Not used with the current Amanda > > lbl-templ "/usr/local/pkg/amanda/example/3hole.ps" > > } > > cool. thanks. > > wow! thanks for all the help everyone! :) > > Carl Soderstrom > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com -- Paul Yeatman (858) 534-9896 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================== ==Proudly brought to you by Mutt== ==================================