Hello, I am using HP DDS-3 tapes for my backup. I've tried to get the correct values for my tape. But tapetype gives this result: define tapetype HP-DDS3-DAT { comment "just produced by tapetype prog
Author: Conny Gyllendahl <conny AT consilia.aland DOT fi>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:13:53 +0300 (EEST)
Nope, they are not correct. The reason is that you probably have hardware compression on which actually expands the data Amanda uses to determine tapesize which in turn gives a smaller length. Howeve
I am using HP DDS-3 tapes for my backup. I've tried to get the correct values for my tape. But tapetype gives this result: define tapetype HP-DDS3-DAT { comment "just produced by tapetype program" l
Author: Niall O Broin <niall AT magicgoeshere DOT com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:38:35 +0100
This is true but as a friend pointed out to me recently when I was having some tape reading problems - if you get some bit errors reading a tar file from a tape, most likely asll you will lose is the
Author: Galen Johnson <gjohnson AT trantor DOT org>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:43:33 -0400
Hello, I am using HP DDS-3 tapes for my backup. I've tried to get the correct values for my tape. But tapetype gives this result: define tapetype HP-DDS3-DAT { comment "just produced by tapetype pro
Author: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:36:54 -0400
That looks as if you have the drives hardware compression enabled, which for amanda is a Bad Thing(tm). When you run tapetype, the source of the data is /dev/urandom. This is not generally compressab
Author: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:12:48 -0400
While you can use mt to turn it off, on most drives is a switch that will turn it off, a bit more dependable than remembering to do it with mt, if your platforms mt even has that ability. Which bring
So... when, and how much work is it to get bzip2 used. Apparently it doesn't suffer from this problem? If I were to replace (by hook or by crook) the COMPRESS_PATH to bzip2 would that work? And what
When? As soon as someone (you?) comes up with the appropriate changes (to make it an either/or), tests them, and submits them. I scanned amanda-hackers and amanda-users archives on yahoo-groups for "
Author: Niall O Broin <niall AT magicgoeshere DOT com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:14:46 +0100
I brought this up and it's not theoretical - I've had problems with gzipped tar files coming back off tapes. I definitely have problems with my tape drive but as mentioned, such errors in a tar file