Dear All,
 
I'm still using an older Legato Version 5 on Solaris machine. We are using a 5 
Tapes DLT autoloader at 15/30Gb per tape. My problem is that the backup doesn't 
do any data compression, the tapes get full at 15Gb. Currently the autoloader 
was attached to /dev/2hbn. I wanted to transfer this /dev/2cbn, to enable the 
compression. My question is, is it okay to still use the current tape which 
have a data that was not compressed? I mean, for example, the current tape is 
not yet full and the data are not compressed on that tape. Now, if I change the 
setting to /dev/2cbn, does the backup continue to the current tape? Or it needs 
another a new tape to start a new backup? Or in General after I change the 
device to /dev/2cbn, can I still recover the uncompressed data from the old 
tapes?
 
Thanks a lot in advance for the reply,
 
Frank