We run SLES10 SP1s under VM, and make data backups to 3592 tape machine
directly from linuxes.

I understand that there should be a compression feature inside this tape
system.
According to Device Drivers, Features, and Commands - SC33-8289-04, it
could be activated in tape_3590 driver with

# mt -f /dev/rtibm0 compression 1

but "mt" in this distribution does not support "compression" command.

Compressing with
tar -czf ...
works fine, but gzip eats lots of cpu.

So I would be happy to get advice on this, or references to good books...

TIA,
Juha Vuori
sysprog
Lindorff, Finland

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