somebody claiming to be 'Amanda' (haha) wrote:
> ...
WARNING: Tape drive has hardware compression enabled> ...
WARNING: Tape drive has hardware compression enabled
define tapetype Dell-PV100T-DDS4 { comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression on)" length 16432 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 2269 kps }
Question: Is it better to have hw compression turned off? ...
Yes, turn off hardware compression. As described in the docs.
In short: the real Amanda can do it better than tape drives and has more control over the tape length. Especially hardware compression often makes files _larger_ than the original if fed already compressed ones. Amanda avoids this ever and with some assistance from the operator it even avoids unneccessary compression attempts.
regards
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