Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread Brian Cuttler
To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Do you use this library On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:17:33 AM McGraw, Robert P did opine: JF, Recently you sent me your tapetype for an lto4 drive. I have a question about the length parameter. An lto-4 tape has

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 25, 2011 09:17:04 AM Brian Cuttler did opine: As long as we are talking about HW vs SW compression, I should say that we've installed pigz, a parallelized version of gzip, on some of our systems with good result. If you have a system that will support it and SW compression

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:38 -0400 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: That could be handy if it is easily configured to be used, which I have not investigated. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Use_pigz_to_speed_up_compression Making amanda use its parallelism might be a

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread Brian Cuttler
All we did at my site was to essentially replace the gzip binary. Its wrong and its cheating, but that is what we did. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 02:21:13PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:38 -0400 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: That could be handy if it is

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:38 -0400 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Making amanda use its parallelism might be a challenging project however. Actually, not challenging at all. According to the man page, http://www.zlib.net/pigz/pigz.pdf: Pigz compresses using threads to make use of

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 25, 2011 07:20:20 PM Charles Curley did opine: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:38 -0400 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: That could be handy if it is easily configured to be used, which I have not investigated.

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-24 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:17:33 AM McGraw, Robert P did opine: JF, Recently you sent me your tapetype for an lto4 drive. I have a question about the length parameter. An lto-4 tape has a non-compress length of ~800GB and in compress about double. I know these are max values.

RE: Do you use this library

2011-08-24 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Subject: Re: Do you use this library On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:17:33 AM McGraw, Robert P did opine: JF, Recently you sent me your tapetype for an lto4 drive. I have a question about the length parameter. An lto-4 tape has a non-compress length of ~800GB and in compress about

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Do you use this library On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:17:33 AM McGraw, Robert P did opine: JF, Recently you sent me your tapetype for an lto4 drive. I have a question about the length parameter. An lto-4 tape has a non-compress length

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-24 Thread gene heskett
to emphasize the 'price' of the trade offs. ;-) Robert -Original Message- From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of gene heskett Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:43 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Do you use this library

RE: Do you use this library

2011-08-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P
in compress mode so should the length value be double or ~1.4TB. Thanks Robert -Original Message- From: Jean-Francois Malouin [mailto:Jean- francois.malo...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 3:33 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Subject: Re: Do you use this library * McGraw

Do you use this library

2011-07-21 Thread McGraw, Robert P
We just purchased a Oracle/Sun StorageTek SL24, SCSI, with HP LTO4 FH tape drive. Does anyone use this model unit. If so could you send me your tapetype for the LTO4 drive. _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System