Re: Quantum SDLT 320 tape drive.

2003-01-31 Thread lone_wolf_20
Thanks for the responses. If I can get my boss to buy off on the rig, I'll post the tapeinfo results for the drive. Thanks for the heads up about the compression as well. I saw this in one of the other posts to the group during the search for info on the drive. I'll have the compression off on

Re: Quantum SDLT 320 tape drive.

2003-01-31 Thread Eric Sproul
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Has anyone used the SDLT 320 drives w/ Amanda? I searched the group archives and didn't get much from them on these drives, same with the FAQ (tape-info would be nice for these drives). I recently deployed an HP changer with SDLT320

Re: Quantum SDLT 320 tape drive.

2003-01-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 31 January 2003 09:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the responses. If I can get my boss to buy off on the rig, I'll post the tapeinfo results for the drive. Thanks for the heads up about the compression as well. I saw this in one of the other posts to the group during the

Re: Quantum SDLT 320 tape drive.

2003-01-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I also shamelessly ripped off an idea that someone posted here with regard to ensuring HW compression is turned off. Since you are also planning to run Linux, this should work for you. in /etc/modules.conf: post-install st mt datcompression off The 'datcompression' subcommand doesn't

Re: Quantum SDLT 320 tape drive.

2003-01-31 Thread Eric Sproul
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 10:13, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: I also shamelessly ripped off an idea that someone posted here with regard to ensuring HW compression is turned off. Since you are also planning to run Linux, this should work for you. in /etc/modules.conf: post-install st

Re: Quantum SDLT 320 tape drive.

2003-01-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 31 January 2003 10:13, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: I also shamelessly ripped off an idea that someone posted here with regard to ensuring HW compression is turned off. Since you are also planning to run Linux, this should work for you. in /etc/modules.conf: post-install st mt

Quantum SDLT 320 tape drive.

2003-01-30 Thread lone_wolf_20
a Quantum SDLT 320 tape drive in conjunction w/ a large hard disk (approx 200 GB). The HD will serve as storage for the incremental runs in this case. Our current setup is a single DSS-4 tape, which was fine about a year ago, but the drive space has grown rapidly while the backup capacity hasn't. My

Re: Quantum SDLT 320 tape drive.

2003-01-30 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
lw == lone wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lw 2) Has anyone used the SDLT 320 drives w/ Amanda? I searched the lw group archives and didn't get much from them on these drives, same lw with the FAQ (tape-info would be nice for these drives). I have an SDLT220 drive; it works just fine. The only

Re: Quantum SDLT 320 tape drive.

2003-01-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 January 2003 18:09, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: lw == lone wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lw 2) Has anyone used the SDLT 320 drives w/ Amanda? I searched the lw group archives and didn't get much from them on these drives, same lw with the FAQ (tape-info would be nice for these