On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:56:17PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 1:07pm, John Oliver wrote > > data wasn't going through the holdingdisk, that that was precluding > > compression, which is why I was running out of space (since my drive is > > 20/40). > > That's not quite right. Compression happens in the pipe, either on the > client end or server end (depending on your dumptype). Holding disk or > not has nothing to do with it. > > > But, then... the drive is supposed to be compressing, isn't it? Maybe > > I'm still confused... :-) > > You must not mix hardware (done by the drive) and software (done by > amanda/gzip) compression. Compressed data will actually expand when > passed through the tape drive's compression mechanism. > > That may very well be what's going on here. If you want to continue using > software compression, turn off your drive's hardware compression.
So, instead of using comp-user, I should use nocomp-user? And what's the difference between user and root for dumptypes? -- John Oliver, CCNA http://www.john-oliver.net/ Linux/UNIX/network consulting http://www.john-oliver.net/resume/ *** sendmail, Apache, ftp, DNS, spam filtering *** **** Colocation, T1s, web/email/ftp hosting ****
