On 9 Apr 2002 at 1:53pm, klavs klavsen wrote
> > You don't mention which version of amanda you got tapetype from, but the
> > one in 2.4.2p2 is *much* faster than the one in 2.4.1. Also make sure
> > that you do *not* have hardware compression turned on for your drive.
> Got the newest - from a RedHat RPM.
As an aside, using pre-compiled amanda packages often leads to no end of
troubles. Since amanda configures a lot of stuff at compile time, you're
left guesssing what values the packager chose. The standard
recommendation is to compile it yourself.
> How do I disable tape-compression?
>
That depends on your tape drive and OS. On some OSes and with some
drives, it's via device names -- /dev/rmt/0n doesn't use compression and
/dev/rmt/0cn does. With some tape drives and OSes, you use 'mt' to toggle
either the compression flag ('mt compression 1') or set the correct
density ('mt setdensity 0x8c' for an Exabyte 8mm, e.g.).
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
