Hi Gene,
on Monday, 2003-07-28 at 07:25:08, you wrote:
> >| EGREP=grep -E
> >
> >certainly looked wrong to me. Quoting did it:
> >| EGREP='grep -E'
> 
> I don't use this but that is how it is in my copy of 
> amanda-2.4.4p1-20030716, at line 33, with the quotes.

Must have been fixed meanwhile -- my install directory is from June
26th, I guess I downloaded the source one or two days before.

> > length 3848 mbytes
> > [...]
> 
> This looks as if the drives compression is on.  If it is, then the 
> data from /dev/urandom gets somewhat expanded by it, and will report 
> a bit less than the tapes raw capacity.

Hmm...I was a bit surprised about this value already, but according to
both the DIP switch and mt, compression is off.

> Since the gzip that amanda uses can beat the hardware in every dept
> but speed, we generally recommend that the drives hardware compressor
> be disabled.

Can amanda be told to use bzip2? This P3 is far from fully loaded with
its job as a WLAN router and fileserver, and as it cannot be clocked
down to save some energy, it might as well do something useful for the
calories it burns :)

regards
        Matthias