"John R. Jackson" wrote:
>
> >I have an old Travan floppy tape (400mb uncompressed). Am I right that
> >Amanda cannot use multiple tapes? ...
>
> It can use multiple tapes, however a single image may not (yet) span
> tapes, i.e. each backup image must fit on a single tape.
>
> I'm working on the tape spanning code (literally) right now. It will
> hopefully be ready very soon.
>
> In the meantime, the standard solution is to use GNU tar and to back up
> subsets of your system that will fit on a tape.
>
> >... I'm running Linux and I need to know how to turn
> >hardware compression on and off. ...
>
> I don't run Linux, but from previous letters on this list, I believe
> it's done like this:
>
> mt -f /dev/whatever compression off
>
> I'd suggest "man mt" to be sure.
Looks like the compression command is only for SCSI tapes. The scheme
for using floppy tapes is a little goofy under Linux. The best advice
is "Don't use floppy tapes". They truly are crap. Mine is slow, runs
hot and makes all sorts of wheezing sounds while it runs. I guess I
should break down and buy a SCSI. Anyone have any advice on a good low
cost SCSI tape?
