On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 02:41:35PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 12 March 2006 11:59, stan wrote: > >I had 2 Amanda instances, one hosted on FreebSD, and the other on and > >Progeny Linux machine. I lost the root disk on the Linux server, and > > I'm building a replacement machine. > > > >Looking at the script that is run on the FreebSD machine I see that I > > do a "nt comp off" to make certain that compression is off on the > > tape drive, before I start the Amanda run. > > > >I'm building the replacement machine on an Ubuntu Linux machine, and > > looking at the man page for mt it does not seem to support this > > command. > > > >What are people with Linux hosts using to accomplish making certain > > that the tape drive is in uncompressed mode? I'm using an Ultrim 3 > > (HP) drive for the replacement machine, as well as (for recovery > > purposes) the existing Quantum DLT80 drive, if it matters. The DLT > > drive has front panel buttons to control this, but the U3 drive does > > not BTW. > > Under solaris, and in recent versions of the linux kernel, the devices > have been proliferated such that one can control the use of compression > via the alias used for the devices name. > Thanks.
Iwas aware of this in olaris, but had not run into it in the Linux world. See my other reply as to why this box is not running Soalris. -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967
