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Re: HARD-DISK tapedev and compression

2006-11-16 00:15:42
Subject: Re: HARD-DISK tapedev and compression
From: "Joe Little" <jmlittle AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Paddy Sreenivasan" <paddy AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:00:30 -0800
This was for the tapedev specification, and not the dumptype. It may
be the index gzip as mentioned..


On 11/15/06, Paddy Sreenivasan <paddy AT zmanda DOT com> wrote:
Please set "compress none" in amanda.conf. See
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda.conf#DUMPTYPE_SECTION
for more information.

Paddy

On 11/15/06, Joe Little <jmlittle AT gmail DOT com> 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.
>


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