On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 at 4:57pm, Tom Brown wrote > > ISTR you saying this is Linux? If so, then 'mt compression 0' should do > > it. You can check the status by pointing 'tapeinfo' (from the mtx > > distribution) at the generic device associated with your tape drive. > > It is linux yes - will amanda use this command before writing to this device > when amanda runs normally? How can one be sure that the hardware compression > is permanently off?
I just put that command in the script that runs amdump each night. You can also play with stinit, but I've never bothered. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
