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

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