Hi all,

I understand that it is better to turn the tape drive's hardware compression 
off and let Amanda know the real size of the tape and gzip do the compression.

So... How do I turn it off, or for that matter, how do I know if it's on or off?

My tape is a DLT 80/160 and I use the following for the tape size in 
amanda.conf (from the amanda web site):

define tapetype DLTVS160 {
   comment "DLT VS160 tape drive"
   length 74529 mbytes         # 72.78 Gb
   filemark 584 kbytes
   speed 2203 kbytes           # 2.15 Mb/s
}

So my tape is configures with it's uncompressed length. The backups seem to be 
working as expected, but how to make sure there is no hardware compression ?

Shai

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