On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:56:17PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 1:07pm, John Oliver wrote
> > data wasn't going through the holdingdisk, that that was precluding
> > compression, which is why I was running out of space (since my drive is
> > 20/40).
> 
> That's not quite right.  Compression happens in the pipe, either on the 
> client end or server end (depending on your dumptype).  Holding disk or 
> not has nothing to do with it.
> 
> > But, then... the drive is supposed to be compressing, isn't it?  Maybe
> > I'm still confused... :-)
> 
> You must not mix hardware (done by the drive) and software (done by 
> amanda/gzip) compression.  Compressed data will actually expand when 
> passed through the tape drive's compression mechanism.
> 
> That may very well be what's going on here.  If you want to continue using 
> software compression, turn off your drive's hardware compression.

So, instead of using comp-user, I should use nocomp-user?

And what's the difference between user and root for dumptypes?

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