On Mon, 05 Oct 1998, Tony Nugent wrote:
>I'm hoping that someone here has experience with this...
>
>I have "inherited" a scsi tape backup unit (and a bunch of 90m/2Gb tapes),
>which I'm about to attach to our web server (which has three 6Gb IDE drives
>on it).
>
>It is a digital TLZ07-DA (desktop) model. Unlike similar models in this
>range, it has no set of DIP switches. With the aha1542 and st drivers, it
>works just great.
>
>I want to enable compression by default on it, and it seems that the only
>way to do this is via software.
>
>% mt datcompression 1
>Compression is off
>
>It won't let me do it :-(
>
>Anyone got any ideas?
I'm not an expert on backing up but I think you can use the tar command in association
with compression programs like gzip or bzip2
>
>Am I stuck with doing the compression with my backup software?
>
>Many thanks for any help or clues.
>
>Cheers
>Tony
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> Computer Support Officer Faculty of Science
> University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba Oueensland Australia
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