> "Petcher, Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd love to turn my LTO-3 drive's HW compression off, but I'm not sure how. > > I'll address that issue later.
mt -f /dev/stX defcompression off should work - works on all the other drives I've used over the years (4mm, 8mm, DLT, SDLT I, SDLT II, etc) On Dec 15, 2007 1:20 PM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that this is an internal GNU tar problem and this is why I suggested > to try out star. gnu tar --listed-incremental still does not work properly at all if you have millions of files (8.5 on the one box where it failes) and list several different file systems (about 8 on the one example system) on the command line - it just *silently* does not back up any files in some of them - if you have either of these situations (# of files and multiple file systems I highly suggest you check your output, the -v log file is sufficient, as it just does not list anything for them) sadly it does not appear that this will ever be fixed in gnu tar which I do not understand as I have been a hugh champion of gtar for so long but can no longer risk my data to it, so is there any cheat sheets on how to convert over to star as far as incremental backup schemes go (or alternatively just what would be missed by using "find | gtar" [what flexbackup uses] vs. "gtar --listed-incremental" ?)
