On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:15:17AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-03-12 17:59, 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. > > > > There are two versions of mt around: GNU-mt and mt-st. You can > distinguish which one by running 'mt --version', returning something > like: > > mt-st v. 0.8 > or > GNU mt version 2.4.2.91 > > The mt-st version needs: > mt -f /dev/nst0 compression 0 > > I do not use the GNU-mt command, and have only access to some old > version, which does not know about compression settings. > Thanks, indeed the mt-st package does provide a version of mt that understands teh compress action.
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