> Thanks for the tip. I also had h/w compression set : setdefcompression 1.
> Should I turn that off as well?
>
The drive should have compression on by default. Setting density codes
and block sizes can get you into trouble. I would recommend removing
these. Then rebooting making sure that the tape drive is power cycled
and finally and wiping any tapes you experimented with these settings
using:

mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
mt -f /dev/nst0 weof

> Lastly, does bacula perform some sort of
> special compression on it's own?

This is what the gzip settings are in the file set. With a tape drive
you do not want to use software compression so you should not use
this.

John

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