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Re: amtapetype
2004-01-20 18:27:07
--On Friday, January 16, 2004 7:21 PM -0500 Gene Heskett
<gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
On Friday 16 January 2004 17:16, Alastair Neil wrote:
Yes I was aware, I thought using the device file without the "c" in
it implied no compression. I have searched in vain for information
about how to turn off compression.
Thats often via a dip-switch setting someplace on the drive. If you
don't have adequate docs on it, you should contact the vendor.
This is not an amanda problem, but we'll try to help you if any of us
has a drive like that one, I do not myself.
If someone on this list has a DLT-8000, please try to help here with
the specifics.
For the record, I have recently setup Amanda for a customer who bought a
brand new Dell PowerEdge 2600 with a Dell provided DLT 40/80 Drive
(Identifies itself as: "sa0: <BNCHMARK DLT1 5538> Removable Sequential
Access SCSI-2 device"). I did not want to physically change any jumpers.
The system is running FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE.
One of the first test tools I ran (I believe was amtapetype) confirmed
hardware compression was indeed active. After doing "/usr/bin/mt -f
/dev/nsa0 comp off" the drive would report compression to be disabled. You
can check the current setting by doing "/usr/bin/mt -f /dev/nsa0 status".
This will not be reset when changing tapes, but will when rebooting the
server.
At first, I added the command to /etc/rc.local which seemed to work fine.
Unfortunately, it only works when there is a tape in the drive, so
rebooting the machine with no tape in the drive will leave it with
compression enabled. What I did then is cron the "/usr/bin/mt -f /dev/nsa0
comp off" 5 minutes before running amcheck and also 5 minutes before my
amdump. You could also create a wrapper but I didn't bother.
This is what the output of "/usr/bin/mt -f /dev/nsa0 status" looks like:
Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression
Current: same variable 0 disabled
---------available modes---------
0: same variable 0 IDRC
1: same variable 0 IDRC
2: same variable 0 IDRC
3: same variable 0 IDRC
---------------------------------
Current Driver State: at rest.
---------------------------------
File Number: 0 Record Number: 1 Residual Count 0
The key here is the "disabled" keyword at the end of the "Current" line. If
it did say "IDRC", then compression is still enabled. I suppose I could
define a mode with compression and a mode without and just switch between
the two but this specific system uses only one type of tapes (bpi settings
is superfluous) and a simple "comp off" gave me the results I was looking
for.
You can also set the environment variable TAPE to /dev/nsa0 and then mt
will work without the -f ... argument. In cron jobs, it might be best to
always include it, but for interactive shells, it's a nice timesaver.
For the record, here is the tapetype definition I use:
define tapetype DLT40 {
comment "BNCHMARK DLT1 5538 with hardware compression off"
length 38500 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 2792 kps
}
This is what tapetype had to say:
amanda@fileserv1(p3)(0):~% amtapetype -e 40g -f /dev/nsa0 -t DLT40
Writing 64 Mbyte compresseable data: 25 sec
Writing 64 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 25 sec
Estimated time to write 2 * 40960 Mbyte: 32000 sec = 8 h 53 min
wrote 1232058 32Kb blocks in 94 files in 14024 seconds (short write)
wrote 1238517 32Kb blocks in 189 files in 14287 seconds (short write)
define tapetype DLT40 {
comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression off)"
length 38602 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 2792 kps
}
amtapetype -e 40g -f /dev/nsa0 -t DLT40 3.47s user 71.27s system 0% cpu
7:56:36.28 total
amanda@fileserv1(p3)(0):~%
I did reduce the length a bit just to be on the safe side (just in case a
filemark really isn't 0 kbytes..)
Hope that helps!
Antoine
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