On Sunday 12 March 2006 11:59, stan wrote:
>I had 2 Amanda instances, one hosted on FreebSD, and the other on and
>Progeny Linux machine. I lost the root disk on the Linux server, and
> I'm building a replacement machine.
>
>Looking at the script that is run on the FreebSD machine I see that I
> do a "nt comp off" to make certain that compression is off on the
> tape drive, before I start the Amanda run.
>
>I'm building the replacement machine on an Ubuntu Linux machine, and
> looking at the man page for mt it does not seem to support this
> command.
>
>What are people with Linux hosts using to accomplish making certain
> that the tape drive is in uncompressed mode? I'm using an Ultrim 3
> (HP) drive for the replacement machine, as well as (for recovery
> purposes) the existing Quantum DLT80 drive, if it matters. The DLT
> drive has front panel buttons to control this, but the U3 drive does
> not BTW.

Under solaris, and in recent versions of the linux kernel, the devices 
have been proliferated such that one can control the use of compression 
via the alias used for the devices name.

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