Sorry to be bothersome about this, but will the below work?
Joe Donner wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. > > do you mean that I will see the behaviour you're describing only if I'm > reusing tapes with hardware-compressed data? I only have 3 tapes so far, > so don't mind erasing them. > > I find this slightly confusing. My understanding at this stage is that as > long as I start with "fresh" tapes, and then use mt -f /dev/nst0 > defcompression 0 to switch off hardware compression, I should be OK from > then onwards? Surely the argument about the tape drive switching into > compression mode (when fed a hardware-compressed tape) then also works the > other way round, i.e. when a tape drive has hardware compression enabled, > and is fed a non-hardware compressed tape, then it won't enable hardware > compression? > > I see that you're saying use stinit, but I've had a look at that and at > this stage it will only add more complexity to (for me) a rather complex > situation. > > If I could get away with erasing 3 tapes, using mt -f /dev/nst0 > defcompression 0 (maybe add that into crontab for good measure), and it > all works reasonably well, then I'll be happy for now. > > Will appreciate your thoughts and thanks a lot for being so helpful. > > Joe > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Compression-usage-tf1889370.html#a5196849 Sent from the Amanda - Users forum at Nabble.com.
