On Friday 25 November 2005 10:47, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
>>>>>> "Inaki" == Inaki Sanchez <isanchez AT unav DOT es> writes:
>
>    Inaki> No problem doing amlabel ISR006 right now, amanda will let
>    Inaki> you do the backup in ISR005 or ISR006, it is up to you.
>
>But how can I choose which?? Amanda handles the autoloader
>automatically, I have no control on what tape goes next.
>
>Maybe amanda will use amanda CONF slot next to go to the next slot,
>until it satisfies the logical condition ISR005 OR new_tape. But I
>don't know. That's what I'd like to know exactly.
>
>    Inaki> I don't know which kind of tape you have, but in scsi tapes
>    Inaki> you cat do "mt -f /dev/nst0 compression 0" to turn hw comp
>    Inaki> off.
>
>Yeah, that command works for me. However, I'm not sure what happens
>when I powercycle the system. I'm not 100% sure the tape will always
>write in non-compression mode, once all labels were written with no
>compression.
>
Then you should be fine.

>Cheers,
>
>Rodrigo

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