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Re: HARD-DISK tapedev and compression

2006-11-15 20:42:06
Subject: Re: HARD-DISK tapedev and compression
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:57:35 -0500
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:58:07AM -0800, Joe Little wrote:
> I've googled and otherwise searched for an answer, but I'm not finding
> out one disables the chunker from executing "gzip --fast" when writing
> to a tape dev. I don't want compression for my virtual tapes since its
> on a DataDomain box and any compression on my end defeats the better
> compression to be found via theirs.

I assume your dumptype doesn't specify compression.
Thus I suspect you are misinterpreting the gzip,
it is probably the gzip used to compress the index,
not the data.

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