On Mon March 10 2003 14:49, Marty Shannon, RHCE wrote: >Eric Sproul wrote: >> Also, my system is Linux, so there >> are no compression-related device names. > >Actually, all Linux Amanda users should read and understand (and > implement) the stinit man page. Once you've built a proper > "/etc/stinit.def" for your drive(s), and make the proper device > nodes, you should never have any issues with compression again.
While I agree wholeheartedly Marty, all advice of this nature should be surrounded by qualifiers. In this case the file doesn't exist on this RH8.0 system. And while there is a manpage, attempting to setup the .def file without access to info that is authoritative *about that drive*, rapidly becomes an exersize in futility. Access to such info can be had, this is generally true for the major labels, but when the manual that might explain it in sufficient detail as to allow the intelligent construction of that stinit.def file costs $85, I do not consider it worth the effort and $$. That BTW was the quoted price for service manual on my 4586np, obtained by a phone call to Okla. City. So in this case the qualifier is possession of enough info. Other than word of mouth on this list, many drives are nothing but black boxes, with many good features never used because no one knows about them. Thats what this list is all about, enhancing the possibility of someone else having first hand experience with the particular black box the poster has, and that someone else has known and lived with enough to help the latecomer. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
