Author: Ralf Auer <Ralf.Auer AT physik.uni-erlangen DOT de>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:18:51 +0200
Hello everybody, if you don't mind, I have two questions concerning hardware compression. I have two HP Ultrium 960 drives. Up to now I used them with hardware compression disabled and compressed my
LTO is unusual. When hwc is enabled each input block is compared with and without compression. The smaller of the two is recorded. As amtapetype feeds "random" data, data that is not compressible, th
Author: Ralf Auer <Ralf.Auer AT physik.uni-erlangen DOT de>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:19:49 +0200
Hi Jon, Ah, I see. So I don't have to worry about that anymore. Good. Sure, I will have to find a "good" value for the scaling factor within the first test runs. I was just confused because of the ex
Author: Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:13:39 +0200
if you don't mind, I have two questions concerning hardware compression. I have two HP Ultrium 960 drives. Up to now I used them with hardware compression disabled and compressed my data on the clien
Author: Ralf Auer <Ralf.Auer AT physik.uni-erlangen DOT de>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:10:25 +0200
Hi Paul, thanks for your reply. All I can say at the moment is that the Ultrium drive that was used for the 'amtapetype' is attached "only" to a 160Mb/s SCSI-controller at the moment. The official HP
Author: Ralf Auer <Ralf.Auer AT physik.uni-erlangen DOT de>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:07:04 +0200
Hi Paul, here are the two different typedefs, one for the 160Mb/s and one for the 320Mb/s SCSI-controller. In both cases HWC was enabled. This is the output, I used the very same tape for both runs:
I have a couple of Seagate Ultrium 100/200GB tape drives in a Sun/Quantum ATL L25 tape library. When I try to run hardware compression (/dev/rmt/0hbn) on them I still can only fit 100GB of data accor
Bob, amtapetype feeds uncompressible data so that you get an accurate picture of what your tape drive will do when presented with default Amanda output (default is 'compress client fast'). The 105GB
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 17:22:16 -0400
Because its not a 200Gb drive? Because its not, I've been told its a 100 Gb drive. And if you have amanda compress, and then feed that to the drives compressor, the data will often grow somewhat. As